Re: [Boost-users] need help using boost bzip2 filter on Windows (or zlib filter)

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] need help using boost bzip2 filter on Windows (or zlib filter)
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-22 04:57:23

Mikko Vainio wrote:

> Hello Christina,
> 
> On 10/21/2009 10:12 PM, ChristinaDRS wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have the following code simple code to compress/uncompress a string:
> [snip]
>> 1>Linking...
>> 1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
>> 'libboost_bzip2-vc90-mt-gd-1_39.lib'
> [snip]
>>
>> I tried following the instructions on this page:
>>
>> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/libs/iostreams/doc/installation.html
>>
>> so I defined these environment variables:
>>
>> BZIP2_BINARY = libbz2.lib
>> BZIP2_INCLUDE = D:\bzip2-1.0.5
>> BZIP2_LIBPATH =  D:\bzip2-1.0.5\Debug
>> BZIP2_SOURCE = D:\bzip2-1.0.5
>>
> 
> I was also perplexed by those instructions; The variables are
> boost.build variables, not environmental variables. Please use
> bjam .... -sBZIP2_SOURCE=D:\bzip2-1.0.5 -sZLIB_SOURCE=...
> in order to get libboost_bzip2 and libboost_zlib compiled.

Actually, environment variables should work fine. It's not clear
from the above report whether the variables were defined when building
Boost itself, and whether the libboost_bzip2... library was produced.

- Volodya