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

From: Michael Glassford (glassfordm_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-08 14:46:53

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:ullmb6uhu.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
> "Duong, Sanh N." <SANH.N.DUONG_at_[hidden]> writes:
> > When I point the PYTHON_ROOT and PYTHON_VERSION to the correct
path, I'd get
> > a lot of errors when compiling.  Is there a step I'm missing here?
>
> Hard to say without seeing the errors.  My guess is that you didn't
> set them correctly.  Did you follow the directions at
>
>     http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/building.html
>
> ??

One thing to check is that (for Win32 at least) if the PYTHON_ROOT and
PYTHON_VERSION environment variable names are not defined in all upper
case letters they won't be detected properly by the build process.
This caused me problems at first.

Mike

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