[Boost-users] Problem Using Bjam V2

From: Wu Yinghui, Freddie (yhwu_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-07 04:11:23

Hi all,

I've been using bjam v1 in 1.33 to build my Boost, and everything went
smoothly. I tried lately to grab the latest Boost from CVS in order to
preview its upcoming feature, but I faced problems building it using the
new bjam v2.

My system: Windows XP Pro SP2
Compiler: MSVC 7.1

First of all, I'd like to build Boost with STLport 5.1.0 (the latest
STLport release). In the old bjam, I could use the vc_7_1-stlport
toolset to activate STLport. In the new bjam, I found that the <stdlib>
option was always set to "native" when I run bjam with --debug-building.
(I've enabled "using stlport" in user-config.jam".) So how do I activate
STLport?

Secondly, I downloaded Zlib and Libbz2 source and wanted to build
Boost.IOStream with zip and bzip2 support. In the old bjam, I could set
ZLIB_INCLUDE, etc. environment variables and then Boost will find the
necessary headers and libraries. In the new bjam, I always get an error
complaining zlib.h not found even though I've already set the
environment variables properly. How do I go about doing this?

Lastly, due to our project requirements, I need to provide some
customized compiler options when building Boost. In the old bjam, I
could use -sBUILD=<cxx-flags>option to do so. But these flags doesn't
seem effective with the new bjam (I don't see them when using -d+2 to
check the compiler parameters). So how do I go about doing this?

Thanks,

Freddie

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