[Boost-users] Re: How does Boost.Build/bjam find boost?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-12 22:42:01

Kelly Burkhart <kelly_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am starting to fiddle with boost and bjam and am not able to get bjam
> to find the boost headers and libraries.
>
> I'm running SuSE 9.1 and started out using the RPMs.  Since last night,
> one-by-one I've uninstalled the RPMs and replaced with freshly
> downloaded and build components.
>
> Right now I have the latest boost,bjam and boost.build releases.  I
> built boost with --prefix=/opt/boost and installed it.  I have
> boost.build placed in /opt/boost as well.  Under my home directory I
> have a directory in which I'm trying to build a hello-world program.
>
> The directory contents:
>
>> ls 
> boost-build.jam  Jamfile  project-root.jam  tst.cpp
>> cat boost-build.jam 
> boost-build /opt/boost/boost-build ;
>> cat Jamfile 
> exe tst : tst.cpp ;
>> cat tst.cpp 
> #include <iostream>
> #include <string>
> #include "boost/format.hpp"
>
> int main()
> {
>     std::cout << boost::format("%1%, world") % "hello" << std::endl;
>     return 0;
> }
>
>
> project-root.jam is empty.
>
> When I try to build with 'bjam tst' it is not able to find the boost
> headers, which makes sense, because I've not been able to figure out how
> to indicate where they live.
>
> How is this accomplished?

exe tst : tst.cpp : <include>path/to/boost/headers ;

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Dave Abrahams
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