Re: [Boost-users] [Boost.Iostreams] Building iostreams with zlib support

From: Lothar May (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-17 18:12:41

Hi,

eg wrote:
> Andreas Profous wrote:
>> As I understand it I have to rebuild boost.iostreams with zlib support:
>> C:\boost\boost_1_34_1\libs\iostreams\build>bjam
>>    "-sNO_COMPRESSION=0"
>>    "-sNO_ZLIB=0"
>>    "-sZLIB_SOURCE=C:\Libs\zlib123"
>>    "-sZLIB_LIBPATH=C:\Libs\zlib123\dll32"
>>    "-sZLIB_BINARY=zlibwapi.dll"
>>
>> I tried this and that but to be honest I don't really know what I'm
>> doing and it didn't work.
>>

Same problem with boost 1.35.0. Using the "-sZLIB..." parameters did not 
work for me, too.

> When I did it, I found that I ONLY set the zlib path environment 
> variables... zlib_libpath, zlib_source, and zlib_include. In fact, I 
> just set them as explicit environment variables and then called bjam 
> with the correct toolset.
> 
> I did not do anything with no_zlib or no_compression or zlib_binary 
> (IIRC they caused me problems).

Thanks for the hint.

I also set the environment variables (in my case ZLIB_LIBPATH, 
ZLIB_SOURCE, ZLIB_INCLUDE and ZLIB_BINARY), and this worked.

Best regards,

Lothar