Re: [Boost-users] Help installing (building) boost - Windows2K w/ MSVC++

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-23 17:02:12

on Mon Apr 23 2007, "Garrett McGrath" <gmcgrath815-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> Try removing the quotes from the line, 

That won't work.  The OP has spaces in one of his paths.

     --PYTHON-ROOT=

sticks out like a bit of a sore thumb in there.  Where did that come
from?

> I found that for whatever
> reason things appeared to work better without them.  

Uh?

> Oh and instead
> of –sTOOLS=msvc switch it to your version of VC, eg. Vc-8_0 for 8.0
> (2k5).

Better make that all lower case.

HTH, 
Dave

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> From: boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf
> Of Beauregard Dommit
> Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:29 PM
> To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
> Subject: [Boost-users] Help installing (building) boost - Windows2K w/ MSVC++
>
> I'm trying to install boost on Windows 2000 running Visual C++, and having lots of problems. 
> It's W2K w/ SP4, and SP6 for Visual Studio.
>
> First, I take it there is no precompiled "install" package, even for Windows?
>
> First problem - I unpack boost and put bjam in the boost directory.  I run it from a command
> prompt w/ something like (I've tried a few variations):
> bjam "-sTOOLS=msvc" "--prefix=C:\program files\boost" "--PYTHON-ROOT=C:\Program Files\Python25"
> "--with-python-version=2.5" "--builddir=G:\temp\buildboost"   install > install_log.txt
> (Sorry for whatever the mailer might be doing to the text - the above is one line.)  I also
> tried the command line with lower case for the Python stuff - the above was my last desperate
> attempt.
>
> In my output file I see:
>         skipping Boost.Python library build due to missing or incorrect configuration
>
>         couldn't find Python.h in "c:/Python25/include"
>
>         You can configure the location of your python installation by setting:
>         PYTHON_VERSION - The 2-part python Major.Minor version number (e.g.
>                  "2.2", NOT "2.2.1")  - currently "2.5"
>         etc................
>
> I guess I'm doing something stupid here, but what?  Jam is apparently finding the prefix and
> builddir OK - it does build boost, or at least part of it, and installs a bunch of libraries and
> includes in the right place.  I do have Python installed and working in C:\Program Files\
> Python25, and Python.h is there.
>
> Second problem - after the above, I get about 2000 lines of errors, or mostly errors.  A lot of
> them are duplicates, but still that doesn't seem good.  The first ones are about the Program
> Options package.  That was the part of Boost I was going to try using first, so I'd like to get
> that fixed. Here are the error msgs:
>         vc-C++
>         G:\temp\buildboost\bin\boost\libs\program_options\build\libboost_program_options.lib\
> msvc\debug\runtime-link-static\cmdline.obj
>         cmdline.cpp
>
>         G:\Temp\newboost\boost_1_33_1\boost/program_options/options_description.hpp(156) : error
> C2258: illegal pure syntax, must be '= 0'
>
>         G:\Temp\newboost\boost_1_33_1\boost/program_options/options_description.hpp(156) : error
> C2252: 'm_default_line_length' : pure specifier can only bespecified for functions
>
>         G:\Temp\newboost\boost_1_33_1\boost/program_options/options_description.hpp(159) : error
> C2065: 'm_default_line_length' : undeclared identifier
>
> Then a bunch of errors about the Bind package, etc, etc, etc.  If someone    can help me fix the
> above problems I'll be very grateful.
>
> Gard
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