[Boost-users] How to build only Boost.Iostreams with compression filter support on Windows XP using MinGW

From: Benjamin Lau (blwy10v_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-28 09:54:19

Good evening,

Pardon my ignorance, or my poor documentation reading skills, but I am
unable to build Boost.Iostreams with compression filter support on
Windows XP using MinGW. I am using Boost 1.34.1, zlib 1.2.3 and bzip2
1.0.4. I tried the following command lines but to no avail:

bjam --toolset=gcc -sNO_COMPRESSION=0 -sNO_BZIP2=0
-sBZIP2_LIBPATH=C:\bzip2-1.0.4 -sBZIP2_SOURCE=C:\bzip2-1.0.4
-sNO_ZLIB=0 -sZLIB_LIBPATH=C:\zlib-1.2.3 -sZLIB_SOURCE=C:\zlib-1.2.3
stage

or

bjam --toolset=gcc --NO_COMPRESSION=0 --NO_BZIP2=0
--BZIP2_LIBPATH=C:\bzip2-1.0.4 --BZIP2_SOURCE=C:\bzip2-1.0.4
--NO_ZLIB=0 --ZLIB_LIBPATH=C:\zlib-1.2.3 --ZLIB_SOURCE=C:\zlib-1.2.3
stage

I searched through the Boost.Iostreams documentation, the Boost.Jam
documentation, and the Boost.Build V2 documentation. Boost.Jam
documentation indicates that the former should work, but Boost.Build
V2 seems to use very little of or not at all of the -s flag for
Boost.Jam, so I tried the latter.

The result of both commands were the same, Boost.Iostreams was built
without the compression filters. However, I do get 12 "warning: Unable
to construct ./stage-unversioned" as the first output from Boost.Jam,
after which it says "...patience..." and continues with the building
process.

Thank you in advance for assisting me in my problem, and in case I
have missed out something critical yet obvious, and hence resulting in
my failure, I apologise for not reading carefully enough.

Thank you and have a nice day
Benjamin Lau