Re: [Boost-users] Re: compiling a project

From: Noah Schwartz (laze00_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-09 12:41:42

Vladimir Prus wrote:

>Noah Schwartz wrote:
>
>  
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>>Hi,
>>
>>    Im running Gentoo over here and I installed boost from gentoo's
>>portage tree. I then tried to compile a program that included
>>boost/python.hpp. It completely failed:
>>
>>/usr/include/boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp:41:24: patchlevel.h: No
>>such file or directory
>>/usr/include/boost/python/detail/wrap_python.hpp:121:21: Python.h: No
>>such file or directory
>>    
>>
>
>Did you read the docs? Especially
>http://boost.org/libs/python/doc/tutorial/doc/html/python/hello.html, which
>says 
>
>   We shall use the build tool that comes bundled with every boost   
>   distribution: bjam.
>   ......
>   Experience shows that 90% of the "I can't build Boost.Python" problems
>   come from people who had to use a different tool.
>
>;-) Maybe you can try with bjam?
>
>  
>
>>    Looks like I don't have some local variables set to tell things im
>>trying to build where to find these files. Im compiling this absurdly
>>simple program (pretty much just an #include <boost/python.hpp> and a
>>main that returns 0) using a Makefile. Do I need to export some paths?
>>    
>>
>
>You need to pass include path to Python to g++. This is something
>like /usr/include/python2.3/
>
>- Volodya
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>
so youre saying that if i want to use boost i cant realistically use mak 
to compil my projects?