Re: [Boost-users] building with iostreams and a non-standard zlib location

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] building with iostreams and a non-standard zlib location
From: Juraj Ivanèiæ (juraj.ivancic_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-03-08 18:44:26

On 8.3.2013. 5:18, James Amundson wrote:

> I'm trying to do a bjam build of boost packages including iostreams. I
> have zlib installed under /unusual/location
>
> ../bjam include=/unusual/location/include install
>
> fails because it cannot find -lz. Obviously, I need to specify that libz
> is in /unusual/location/lib, but I don't see how to do that.
>
> I realize this seems obvious. Which part of the documentation am I missing?

Try

search=/unusual/location/lib