Re: [Boost-users] Building Boost 1.53

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Building Boost 1.53
From: Lars Viklund (zao_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-03-30 11:49:55

On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 10:40:47AM -0500, Michael Powell wrote:
> Thank you...
> 
> I would seem that the iostreams fall over on a zlib dependency. Not
> positive we'll need it straight off, but given our size constraints
> (embedded ARM device), it's not a far stretch, it's quite plausible we
> would want to zlib-compress data along the way.
> 
> That said... What are my options? The simplest answer, I've read, is
> to find zlib and provide this? Do we need to build that separately for
> ARM? Or does that get included with the boost build?

The Iostreams library can either use an existing ZLib library and
headers, or build a private internal variant of ZLib if you point out
a ZLib source tree.

It's likely analogous for the BZip2 parts of Iostreams.

(fun fact -- Boost list policy mandates in-line bottom-posting)

> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > AMDG
> >
> > On 03/29/2013 12:14 PM, Michael Powell wrote:
> >> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Michael Powell <mwpowellhtx_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> I believe we're on the home stretch building boost and getting
> >>> productive with it. But I have a couple of questions.
> >>
> >> At the moment, it is mostly building. I do get an installed outcome.
> >> However, minus one target: failed updating 1 target.
> >>
> >> Which target? No idea how critical that target is to what we want to accomplish.
> >>
> >
> > I suggest you re-run b2.  It should only try to
> > update the target that failed, so you can see
> > what it is.  (When you're building from scratch
> > and you want to see errors, either use -q to stop
> > on errors or capture the output in a file.)
> >
> > In Christ,
> > Steven Watanabe
> >
> >
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