Re: [Boost-users] Extracting uBLAS from boost

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Extracting uBLAS from boost
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-24 12:45:03

> I am new to boost and I am mainly interested in the uBLAS library.
> As far as I understood it should be possible to extract that module with 
> BCP
> and build it later on with BJAM?!
>
> I) So I downloaded the newest boost release.
> II) $ bcp uBLAS config build ~/workspace/libs/uBLAS
> Which seemed to be successful. At least I got all the expected folders to
> the chosen destination. I also got a boost-build.jam in my directory, so I
> tried a simple
> III) $ bjam toolset=gcc
>
> Which leads to:
> error: error: no Jamfile in current directory found, and no target
> references specified.
>
> May be I did that all in the wrong way, but there's no real HOWTO out 
> there
> (especially for the last step).

There's nothing to build for uBlas - it's a header only library - just add 
~/workspace/libs/uBLAS to you're include path and start using it.

HTH, John.