Re: [Boost-build] Building iostreams with zlib with MSVC

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Building iostreams with zlib with MSVC
From: KTC (ktc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-01-25 06:23:13

On 25/01/2012 09:30, James Gregory wrote:
> On 25 January 2012 08:40, Norbert Wenzel<norbert.wenzel.lists_at_[hidden]>  wrote:
>>
>> I'm using a .bat to build each boost release for some years now and these
>> builds include bzip2 and zlib. The script looks something like this.
>>
>
> If I follow KTC's advice (set -sZLIB_BINARY=zdll) then the build
> process completes without any errors, however:
>
> 1. no libboost_zlib-vc100... is produced. There is a zlib.obj, and
> maybe the zlib.obj has been linked with libboost_iostreams-vc100...
> Possibly this is the intended behaviour, but when I build the program
> I need boost for, it expects to find a libboost_zlib-vc100...
>
> 2. According to
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/libs/iostreams/doc/installation.html,
> ZLIB_BINARY=zdll is already set by default on Windows, so I think the
> documentation may be wrong
>
> 3. I gave up and installed some prebuilt binaries from boostpro

I don't know why it doesn't work with pre-compiled zlib since like 
Norbert I uses the zlib source to build boost with.

@set ZLIB_SOURCE=D:/libs/zlib-1.2.5
b2 --build-type=complete -j2 stage
(Don't have to specify ZLIB_INCLUDE because of the default. Toolset 
specified in a separate site-config.jam.)

I've had no problem even when I was running the regression tests.

KTC