Re: [Boost-users] [iostreams] Linker error

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-29 09:26:29

Klaus Nowikow wrote:
> Hi,
>
> with the following test program:
>
> <code>
> #include <boost/iostreams/filter/bzip2.hpp>
>
> int main(int argc, char* argv[])
> {
> return 0;
> }
> </code>
>
> I get the linker error (MSVC 7.1):
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> 'libboost_bzip2-vc71-mt-1_33.lib'
>
> A similar error occurs with "zlib.hpp" instead of "bzip2.hpp":
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> 'libboost_zlib-vc71-mt-1_33.lib'
>
> I did not find this lib files in my Boost library directory, so I
> might
> have missed something when I built Boost.
>
> This is what I did:
>
> - Got the sources for the bzip2 and the zlib libraries
> - Built the libs
> - Built Boost with this command line:
>
> bjam "-sTOOLS=vc-7_1" "-sNO_COMPRESSION=0" "-sNO_ZLIB=0"

I think you need to ommit NO_COMPRESSION, NO_ZLIB, .. from the command lines.
Simply defining the environment variables specifying the ;ocations source of the
headers and binaries will enable compression support.

Let me know if it works.

>    "-sZLIB_LIBPATH=c:/dev/Libraries/zlib/lib"
>    "-sZLIB_INCLUDE=c:/dev/Libraries/zlib/include/zlib"
>    "-sNO_BZIP2=0"
>    "-sBZIP2_LIBPATH=c:/dev/Libraries/bzip2/lib"
>    "-sBZIP2_INCLUDE=c:/dev/Libraries/bzip2/include/bzip2"
> (without the line breaks of course)

> Best regards,
> Klaus

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Jonathan Turkanis
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