Re: [Boost-build] Newbie question, How to link against libraries?

From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-27 08:32:51

W Eryk Wolski wrote:

> Dear bjam users,
> 
> Insteat of executing
> 
> g++ -lcppunit ComplexNumberTest.cpp UnitTest.cpp -o UnitTest
> 
> I want to use bjam to compile the unit tests.
> 
> All includes and libaries are located in /usr/include and /usr/lib
> 
> In the Jamroot file in the test directory
> I specified
> 
> exe UnitTest :  [ glob *.cpp ];
> 
> How to specify the -lcppunit compiler option; that the cpp files should be
> linked againt the libccpunit library?
> 
> I made several tries with //cppunit <lib> <find-library> etc. etc. but could
> not get it compiled.

Does

        http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/tutorial/prebuilt.html

help? I'd expect something like:

        lib cppunit ;
        exe UnitTest :  [ glob *.cpp ] cppunit ;

to just work.

- Volodya