Re: [Boost-users] Options for --build-type

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Options for --build-type
From: Juan D Guzman (lostinthecode_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-07 15:24:57

Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:
>   Hi Juan.
>
>> I'm building boost and was wondering other than --build-type=complete 
>> what are the other options.  Disk usage approaches 40 gigs with the 
>> complete option.
>
>   Well you can pick and choose whatever part of the build you need. 
> Just  specify the correct build features on the command line.
>
>   For example, requesting 'variant=debug,release runtime-link=static 
> link=shared lib1 lib2 lib3' to be built will generate release and 
> debug dll versions of libraries lib1, lib2 & lib3 with statically 
> linked runtime libraries. Check out the Boost Build documentation for 
> a detailed list of available features you can set, but in general you 
> set them as feature=value.
>
>   --build-type=complete is just a shortcut for listing a lot of these 
> options at once, and thus getting a lot of different build variants 
> for a lot of libraries built at once.
>
>   Also, note that if you use the stage option (with --stagedir=..., 
> see the Boost library's Jamroot.jam file for details), and you do not 
> need to debug or rebuild the libraries then you can free up some space 
> by deleting the used bin (or is it bin.v2, not sure atm, but should be 
> easy to check :-)) folder after the build is done. That folder holds 
> only intermediate build targets like object files or .dll's that got 
> copied to the staging folder.
>
>   Hope this helps.
>
>   Best regards,
>     Jurko Gospodnetić
>
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Thanks for the response and it was very helpful.  As most of boost is 
header only I can always just wait until I actually need a feature 
before I build I suppose.  I was assuming, mistakenly, that there was 
other options to --build-type.  But you cleard that up quite well.

Regards,

JD