Re: [Boost-users] Boost 1.48.0 Release Notice

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost 1.48.0 Release Notice
From: Andrew Maclean (andrew.amaclean_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-17 16:09:13

On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 6:54 AM, Brian Budge <brian.budge_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Tom Kent <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > I'm confused.  Are those new items?  I've never seen them build
> > before, but then again I've never actually used the iostreams library.
> >
> > >From the format of the filename strings, they look like independent
> > libraries, but zip and bzip2 aren't shown on the boost libraries page.
> >  Is there a chance you're actually looking for the zlib and libbz2?
> >
> > Tom
>
> For windows these are built for convenience so that zlib and bz2 are
> packaged along with the boost libs since it is not terribly common to
> have them available on all windows boxes.  You just have to tell bjam
> to build them when building the rest of the code; they are optional
> and not built by default.
>
>  Brian
>

You are correct but I have never seen bzip2 or zlib included in the boost
libraries. I have generally built them separately and then added the
following settings to my boost build:

set BZIP_PATH=C:\Users\amaclean\wherever\bzip
set ZLIB_PATH=C:\Users\amaclean\wherever\zlib
rem Setting environment for building iostreams with bzip and gzip.
set NO_COMPRESSION=0
set NO_BZIP2=0
set BZIP2_SOURCE="%BZIP_PATH%\bzip2-1.0.6"
set NO_ZLIB=0
set ZLIB_SOURCE="%ZLIB_PATH%\zlib-1.2.5"

Maybe they should be included in boost and only used in windows builds.

Andrew

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