Re: [Boost-users] Is there a way to avoid manually adding each lib dir?

From: Stuart Dootson (stuart.dootson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-04-22 19:42:31

On 4/23/06, Andrew Schweitzer <a.schweitzer.grps_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Stuart Dootson wrote:
> >
> > If you use the 'install' target with bjam when building Boost, it puts
> > all the lib files into a single folder. Then you only need to point to
> > that directory when building and let auto-linking select the
> > appropriate lib file.
>
> Wonderful! It worked! Thanks very much.
>
> I'm not sure I needed to, but I added the --libdir parameter to bjam. My
> new command line is:
>
> bjam.exe "-sVC71_ROOT=D:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET
> 2003\Vc7" -sTOOLS=vc-7_1 --libdir=%BOOST_ROOT%\bin\boost\libs install
>
>
> >
> > HTH
> > Stuart Dootson

I use something like

bjam "-sTOOLS=vc-7_1" --prefix=c:\lib\boost install

That puts the include hierarchy in c:\lib\boost\include\boost-1_33_1
and the libs in c:\lib\boost\lib

Stuart Dootson