Re: [Boost-users] Struggling to implement bzip2 on windows

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Struggling to implement bzip2 on windows
From: Pfligersdorffer, Christian (Christian.Pfligersdorffer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-02 03:16:29

Hi Jared,

if you have the sources of bzip2 on your computer you can run

bjam ... -sBZIP2_SOURCE=the/path -with-iostreams

to build boost::iostreams with BZIP2-support. You can find some
documentation about this in the library docs.

Hope this helps,

-- 
Christian Pfligersdorffer
Software Engineering
http://www.eos.info
boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden] on :
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm a VS2008 user, trying to use the ESBTL library for a
> project, which implements Boost to do many operations.
> 
> ESBTL #includes <boost/iostreams/filter/bzip2.hpp>, which has
> been disabled for the Boostpro installation of windows.
> 
> Quite simply, I'm struggling to get bzip2 installed and set
> up so that boost runs with bzip2 enabled.
> 
> Has anybody done this before? Can anyone offer me more
> information than "compile from source?"
> 
> best,
> Jared