Re: [Boost-build] Newbie questions

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Newbie questions
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-14 15:22:02

AMDG

Boris Schaeling wrote:
> Thanks, I see! Now I'm trying to understand how to link to prebuilt 
> libraries (if no Jamfiles are around). In order to keep a project's 
> Jamfiles platform-independent I defined the following targets in 
> user-config.jam:
>
> lib boost_date_time : : <name>libboost_date_time-vc90-mt 
> <search>C:/lib : : <include>C:/include ;
> lib boost_filesystem : : <name>libboost_filesystem-vc90-mt 
> <search>C:/lib : : <include>C:/include ;
> ...
>
> How do I reference now these targets in my project's Jamfiles? If I 
> simply add boost_date_time to the sources of an exe rule bjam 
> complains about not finding a file or target with this name.

It should be /user-config//boost_date_time.
However, if you are using prebuilt libraries, it's
easier to use the boost module.  Run bjam --help boost
for documentation.

> I also wonder if I can group the libraries somehow. If all my Boost 
> C++ libraries can be found in C:\lib and all header files are in 
> C:\include it should be possible to use an alias? I tried this:
>
> alias boost-dirs : : <search>C:/lib : : <include>C:/include ;
> lib boost_date_time : boost-dirs : <name>libboost_date_time-vc90-mt ;
> lib boost_filesystem : boost-dirs : <name>libboost_filesystem-vc90-mt ;
>
> While the include directory is passed through the search directory 
> isn't used (compiling works but linking fails). Where do I have to put 
> <search>? Or do I have to use another feature?

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe