Re: [Boost-build] Building libraries for Dev++ ... usual steps don't work :(

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-22 06:13:54

On Friday 18 January 2008 18:54:53 leper wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I'm brand new to this, but I've just spent my morning trying to use bjam to
> build gcc libraries for boost. 
> 
> I've carefully followed instructions from these two websites:
> http://wagjo.com/index.php?id=27
> and
> http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~dfischer/manual/manual_topic38.html#topic41

It does not appear that those instructions are up-to-date for 1.34.*.
Did you check http://boost.org/more/getting_started/index.html ?

> 
> But after running, bjam leaves my Boost\lib folder empty (That is, it
> creates the folder, but does not put anything in it.) 
> 
> At the end of the bjam output:
> ...failed updating 1400 targets...
> ...skipped 574 targets...

This suggest that lots of targets failed to build. 
What are the error messages?

- Volodya