Re: [Boost-build] [BGL] read_graphviz lib compiling

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [BGL] read_graphviz lib compiling
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-24 08:36:05

On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, Cosimo Calabrese wrote:

> Vladimir Prus wrote:
>>> I'm using MSVS 2005 and boost 1.37.
>>> 
>>> I've readed in the read_graphviz documentation that if I want to use that 
>>> function I must compile a lib with the source that I can found in 
>>> \libs\graph\src. But I can't find any *.jam file to do it. I've founded 
>>> the Unix istruction to do it, but not for MSVS.
>> 
>> Just follow the usual getting started guide. E.g.
>>
>> 	.\bootstrap
>> 	.\bjam --with-graph
>> 
>
> Thanks Volodya,
>
> there are 2 issues that have confused me:
> - compared to the other boost libraries like thread, date-time, ecc...,
> graph lib requires to explicitly specify it in the list of the libs of
> the project; there aren't any automatic linking of the lib;
> - the name of the lib isn't 'libbgl-viz' like specified in the doc:
>
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_31_0/libs/graph/doc/read-graphviz.html
>
>  but is complying to the other boost lib names:
>    - libboost_graph-vc80-mt.lib (release version);
>    - libboost_graph-vc80-mt-gd.lib (debug version);
>
> I haven't found this info anywhere in boost docs, but I've resolved

The library name has been libboost_graph for a while, and the 
documentation states that.

-- Jeremiah Willcock