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

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Struggling to implement bzip2 on windows
From: Jeff Flinn (TriumphSprint2000_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-09-02 09:02:08

 >>> 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
 > Quoting "Pfligersdorffer, Christian" 
<Christian.Pfligersdorffer_at_[hidden]>:
 >
 >> 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
 >>
Jared James Thompson wrote:
> Christian,

Please don't top post.

> Thanks for your response. The library docs weren't terribly helpful on this 
> topic. What is supposed to go in place of the ellipsis in your statement (...)?

you follow the getting started docs for windows I do the following to 
build all static libs using static crt:

bjam link=static runtime-link=static debug -sBZIP2_SOURCE=the/path stage

bjam define=_SECURE_SCL=0 link=static runtime-link=static release 
-sBZIP2_SOURCE=the/path stage

> My understanding of bjam is that it goes looking for boost-build.jam and I 
> don't understand this process of flagging it with arguments. Does bjam need a 
> modified boost-build.jam source file to do operations like this?

Just download and use the pre-built windows bjam.exe

Hope this helps, Jeff