Re: [Boost-build] module for pre-built boost libraries

From: Eric Woodruff (eric.woodruff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-04 15:03:30

Could an action be specified to build boost if the libraries aren't
found? (Which in my case would include untarring it.)

Roland Schwarz wrote:
> I just have finished a module for easier use of pre-built boost
> libraries.
> 
> Other than in windows builds there is no auto-link
> available with gcc. This makes it very tedious to specify boost
> library names if multiple variants tagged for debug,release
> static,shared or different compiler versions are installed.
> 
> My module allows to uniformly name the libraries from the
> project Jamfiles while still being able to get the appropriately
> tagged versions.
> 
> A typical use would be to specify in user-config.jam
> 
> import boost ;
> 
> # Configure the pre-built 1.35 version as the default.
> boost.config 1.35
>     : <include>/home/roland/include/boost-1_35
>       <library>/home/roland/lib
>     ;
> # Configure the version with the symbolic name 'trunk' to use a specific
> # source tree.
> boost.config trunk
>     : <root>/home/roland/projects/boost/trunk
>     ;
> 
> # Configure a previous version of the library
> boost.config 1.34.1
>     : <include>/home/roland/include/boost-1_34_1
>       <library>/home/roland/lib
>     ;
> 
> And in a Jamfile that needs to link to boost libraries:
> 
> using boost : 1.35 ;
> 
> exe myexe
> 	: mysrc.cpp
> 	: <library>/boost//program_options
>           <variant>release
>           <link>static
>         ;
> 
> To use the library from source tree instead you simply
> would need to replace the using by:
> 
> using boost : trunk ;
> 
> The module is intended to be installed into the boost-build tools
> directory. It has provisions to take care of different library
> setups and tagging rules.
> 
> I would be glad to contribute the code to boost if there is
> interest.
> 
> Regards speedsnail
> 
> 
> 
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