Re: [boost] How to use BCP

Subject: Re: [boost] How to use BCP
From: Guilherme Kunigami (kunigami.dev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-08-16 15:33:51

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Guilherme Kunigami <kunigami.dev_at_[hidden]
> wrote:

> Hi, thanks for your answer.
>
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:01 AM, John Maddock <boost.regex_at_[hidden]>wrote:
>
>>  First, I issued the following bcp command to copy the required libraries
>>> to
>>> /boost_minimal/boost
>>>
>>> find /path/to/my/app | xargs {} bcp --scan {} /boost_minimal
>>>
>>> As Voorhees said, no building script is copied.
>>>
>>
>> By default bcp copies source files, but not Boost.Build, you can get
>> Boost.Build as well with a:
>>
>> bcp build /boost_minimal
>
>
>> Unfortunately, someone has added a new vital build file (boostcpp) to root
>> which doesn't get copied.... I'll fix that in bcp.
>>
>>
> This command also does not copy bootstrap.*. Am I missing another command?
>
>
>>
>>  In my case, I manually
>>> copied all files at the root of the original directory and the tools
>>> directory. Then I ran
>>>
>>> ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/some/dir
>>> ./bjam
>>> ./bjam install
>>>
>>> It generated headers in /some/dir/include, but no libraries in
>>> /some/dir/lib, which would happen if I did this on the original boost
>>> dir. I
>>> guess I'm missing some step when copying the build files to
>>> boost_minimal.
>>>
>>
>> Not necessarily: is there actually anything for it to build?  Remember a
>> lot of Boost is header only - which libraries are you missing?
>>
>
> I think so, bcp copied filesystem, regex, python and thread.
>
> Actually, I was using --boost=<path to boost include/libs>. Changing it to
> --boost=<path to boost sources> made the libs dir to be copied too.
>
> But now I'm getting a build error:
>
> error: Unable to find file or target named
> error:     '../../filesystem/build//boost_filesystem'
> error: referred from project at
> error:     'libs/wave/build'
>

Adding the filesystem library explicitly with "bcp fylesystem ..." did the
trick, but that's strange it was not added in the first place.

>
> It seems the build script is missing something or did I miss some step?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>> HTH, John.
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