[Boost-users] Re: install? and simple thread program.

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-05 15:19:56

Scott Dattalo <scott_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Fri, 5 Mar 2004, Michael Glassford wrote:
>
>> "Duong, Sanh N." <SANH.N.DUONG_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>> news:6A47CB4A48D1EA49A6F7AB618490D649069D8C3C_at_mcl-its-exs03.mail.saic.com...
>> > All,
>> >
>> > Does anyone have an example of how to install boost and bjam?
>> 
>> See the recently much improved Getting Started guide:
>> http://boost.org/more/getting_started.html.
>
> After you follow those instructions, boost will still not work. 

Even if you were right, I think you're painting with too broad a
brush here.  But I think you're wrong.

> You'll need to create links to all of the mangled library names. For
> example, in my case all of the libraries have either "gcc" or
> "gcc_1_31" mangled in.  However, the examples (or more specifically
> the boost.python example) assume that the libraries have unmangled
> names.

The Boost.Python example should still work just fine, if you follow
the instructions.  bjam doesn't use the mangled library names when
building with cross-project dependencies.  It worked for me just
now.  I went into libs/python/example and did

      bjam test

and everything passed.  No funky linking should is needed.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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