Re: [Boost-users] Boost-users Digest, Vol 815, Issue 1

From: Scott (cheesy4poofs_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-13 08:14:07

> Robert Vinluan wrote:
> 
> >Right now, in order to compile and link to the iostreams 
> library with 
> >zlib/bzip2 support, I have to include the .cpp files in my 
> project (as 
> >mentioned in the boost docs).  I'm not too fond of this idea 
> as I want 
> >to keep 3rd-party code outside of my project build.
> >
> >Perhaps I have missed something in the docs, but is there 
> another way to 
> >link with the iostreams library without including the .cpp files?
> >  
> >
> Huh ? I don't understand... forgive me for my ignorance, since I'm 
> probably missing your point, but I just, for example, #include 
> <boost/iostreams/stream.hpp> and it just works, without 
> linking to any 
> special lib... what exactly are your needs that require 
> linking against 
> a lib? Or is it that bzip2/zlib support needs linking with a boost 
> library ?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Leon Mergen
> http://www.solatis.com/

I have the exact same problem Robert describes.  I have compiled iostreams
on Windows XP with zlib support (using my downloaded copy of zlib) and I
added the various ZLIB parameters to bjam for compiling iostreams with zlib
support.  However, anytime I try to compile/link a program using iostreams
with zlib, I get the same error message.  (It's looking for a non-existent
zlib library to link to, instead of the zlib library I compiled boost with).