[Boost-users] Re: building and installing boost

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-27 10:06:19

TBoafo_at_[hidden] wrote:
> Hi Dave,
>  
> 1. I dont have BOOST_ROOT defined in my environment.
>  
> 2. I still get messages with loading jam files when I try
>  
> C:\temp\boost_1_32_0>bjam -sBOOST_ROOT=."-sTOOLS=vc-7_1"   install

I hope that really was:

C:\temp\boost_1_32_0>bjam -sBOOST_ROOT=. "-sTOOLS=vc-7_1" install

OK, I really don't have much of a clue as to what could be wrong :-( But 
here are some things to try. First you could answer my original question 
as to what your environment has by doing:

C:\temp\boost_1_32_0>set

And posting the output.

You should check that "JAMFILE" is not set in the env. And you already 
checked "BOOST_ROOT". If "JAMFILE" is set in your env, unset it and try 
again.

You should do a search in that "boost_1_32_0" tree for files named 
"Jamfile" and post that list. There should be such files in places like 
"C:\temp\boost_1_32_0\libs\thread\build\Jamfile". If you don't have 
those files either the OS prevented you from creating them when you 
extracted the archive, or you archive program did not extract them. If 
the later the you should get a different program to extract the archive. 
I suggest 7-Zip: http://www.7-zip.org/

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