Linking to system libraries

From: Zbynek Winkler (zwin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-27 17:30:43

Hello,

I am once again lost. I am tring to convert a project using cppunit to 
bb2. I've set up everything according to the documentation and it kind 
of works.

In the docs there is an example of using prebuilt libraries with zlib.

lib zlib : : <name>z <search>/opt/lib ;

Where does this line go? To which file? In my project-specific jamfiles 
I'd like to say that I want to use cppunit. Where exactly this library 
lives is not my concern at this time - it is system dependent. Does the 
search path go to the site-config.jam? I get some syntax error when 
trying to put it there.

Can I create a Jamfile for my project like this?

unit-test test
: test.cpp
: <library>cppunit
;

And add something like the following to the site-config.jam?

lib cppunit : : <name>cppunit <search>/path/to/lib <variant>release ;
lib cppunit : : <name>cppunitd <search>/path/to/lib <variant>debug ;

Thanks for your time.
Zbynek

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