Re: [Boost-users] [iostreams] building with zlib

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [iostreams] building with zlib
From: Johan Råde (johan.rade_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-07-28 12:32:47

On 2011-07-28 15:29, Daniel James wrote:
> On 28 July 2011 14:23, Daniel Bradburn<moagstar_at_[hidden]>  wrote:
>> Hi Thanks,
>> I tried moving the location of zlib and use the following command line now:
>> "../../../bjam" -sZLIB_SOURCE=C:\Development\sdk\gzip\124\
>> -sZLIB_HEADER=C:\Development\sdk\gzip\124\
>> It's actually managing to build zlib now, but I still get the following
>> error...
>> ..\..\..\libs\iostreams\src\zlib.cpp(20) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open
>> include file: 'zlib.h': No such file or directory
>> Anyone got any ideas?
>
> You probably should be using ZLIB_INCLUDE, not ZLIB_HEADER.
>
> If that doesn't resolve it, look in output after the compilation
> failure, bjam should print out the command that was run (or use 'bjam
> -na' which will print out all the commands bjam would run). Check the
> include parameter in that, and compare it to the location of zlib.h.

You should use the zlib library, http://zlib.net, not the gzip library, 
http://www.gzip.org.

Also, it is enough the specify ZLIB_SOURCE, you do not need to specify 
ZLIB_INCLUDE. (ZLIB_INCLUDE is used if you want to use a prebuilt 
version of zlib.)

--Johan