Re: Compression libraries such as zlib and zstd ought to be first class boost libraries

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-05-02 08:55:38

Nigel Stewart wrote:
> Our specific requirement is to statically link _our_ preferred version of zlib
> built from _our_ pristine (and possibly patched) repo.  There is no build
> reproducability via system packages that get patched over time, or are pinned
> to a historical version for the purpose of system stability.

As I said, this is accomplished by putting the following line in one of the
b2 configuration files, for example user-config.jam:

using zlib : 1.3.1 : <include>/opt/zlib-1.3.1/include <search>/opt/zlib-1.3.1/lib <name>our-zlib-name-1.3.1 ;

if we assume that your zlib headers are in /opt/zlib-1.3.1./include and
your prebuilt binary is /opt/zlib-1.3.1/lib/our-zlib-name-1.3.1.a.

Same for zstd (or bzip2 or lzma).