[Boost-build] Building iostreams with zlib with MSVC

Subject: [Boost-build] Building iostreams with zlib with MSVC
From: James Gregory (james.jrg_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-24 08:09:17

I previously built iostreams successfully with no error messages, but
now I want to build it with zlib support. So I downloaded a zlib
binary distribution from the zlib homepage, and tried building
iostreams with:

b2.exe -s ZLIB_INCLUDE=C:\Users\james\dev\cpplib\zlib\include -s
ZLIB_LIBPATH=C:\Users\james\dev\cpplib\zlib\lib --with-iostreams stage

The output is:

error: No best alternative for libs/iostreams/build/boost_zlib
    next alternative: required properties: (empty)
        matched
    next alternative: required properties: (empty)
        matched
error: No best alternative for libs/iostreams/build/boost_zlib
    next alternative: required properties: (empty)
        matched
    next alternative: required properties: (empty)
        matched
error: No best alternative for libs/iostreams/build/boost_zlib
    next alternative: required properties: (empty)
        matched
    next alternative: required properties: (empty)
        matched
error: No best alternative for libs/iostreams/build/boost_zlib
    next alternative: required properties: (empty)
        matched
    next alternative: required properties: (empty)
        matched

Component configuration:

    - chrono                   : not building
    - date_time                : not building
    - exception                : not building
    - filesystem               : not building
    - graph                    : not building
    - graph_parallel           : not building
    - iostreams                : building
    - locale                   : not building
    - math                     : not building
    - mpi                      : not building
    - program_options          : not building
    - python                   : not building
    - random                   : not building
    - regex                    : not building
    - serialization            : not building
    - signals                  : not building
    - system                   : not building
    - test                     : not building
    - thread                   : not building
    - timer                    : not building
    - wave                     : not building

...patience...
...found 561 targets...
...updating 6 targets...
compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\iostreams\build\msvc-10.0\debug\link-static\threading-multi\zlib.obj
zlib.cpp
libs\iostreams\src\zlib.cpp(20) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open
include file: 'zlib.h': No such file or directory

<snip>

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Also, typing:

cd C:\Users\james\dev\cpplib\zlib\include
dir

gives the output:

 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is E8AD-ECD4

 Directory of C:\Users\james\dev\cpplib\zlib\include

24/01/2012  12:12    <DIR>          .
24/01/2012  12:12    <DIR>          ..
18/04/2010  17:58            13,375 zconf.h
20/04/2010  04:12            79,564 zlib.h
               2 File(s)         92,939 bytes
               2 Dir(s)  58,448,453,632 bytes free

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Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

James