Re: [Boost-users] Problem in building the BGL Python 0.95 on Windows

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Problem in building the BGL Python 0.95 on Windows
From: John Reid (j.reid_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-07-01 08:06:37

On 30/06/13 15:47, lizy10b wrote:
> Hi John Reid ,
> Thanks fo your reply.
> I have some questions about the statements in README file of BGL Python
> 0.95.
>  
> It says
> "You must have a complete Boost distribution available (e.g., retrieved via CVS or as part of a
> 
>     Boost tarball) to compile the BGL-Python: 
> the BGL-Python bindings will not compile properly with already-installed Boost trees."
>  
> First, I have got the complete Boost distribution (1.52,ZIP) and
> extracted it to a path, and added the path as the value of the
> environment variable BOOST_ROOT.

I believe this is what you should do.

> Second, What does it mean by
> "the BGL-Python bindings will not compile properly with already-installed Boost trees"?

This means that the bindings are expecting to find the entire boost tree
somewhere rather than just a set of installed libraries and headers.

> 
> Should I build the boost.python before calling bjam inside BGL Python
> 0.95 source dir ?

I don't think you have to.

> Or there is no need to build the boost.python separately, as the BGL
> Python 0.95 build process will build it and use it to continue to build
> the BGL Python binary automatically ?

I belive so.

>  
> Without BGL Python, I could build the boost.python based on current
> configuration, and all the boost.python example passed successfully.

OK that narrows it down somewhat.

I don't know about boost.build on Windows but are you sure it is finding
your user-config.jam? The error message suggests it does not know the
rule python.get-python-interpreter. On Linux I have user-config.jam in
my home directory. You seem to have put it at $(BOOST_ROOT)\build\v2\

>  
> Thanks.
>  
> Zhiyu Li
>  
> 2013-06-30
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> lizy10b
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *发件人：* John Reid
> *发送时间：* 2013-06-28  17:54:23
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> *主题：* Re: [Boost-users] Problem in building the BGL Python 0.95 on
> Windows
> On 20/06/13 09:18, lizy10b wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>   I have got the latest BGL-Python 0.95 from svn (thanks to
>> John), but I can't build it.
>> My environment:
>> Windows 7 x64, Python 2.66 x86, MPICH2 1.32 x86, VS2010
>>  
>> I have tried the following steps:
>>  
>> 1. The boost 1.53 source code distribution dir (newly extracted from the zip package) is E:\boost_1_53_0, 
>>      the BGL Python 0.95 source code dir is E:\bgl-python_svn_095
>> 2. Add a new environment variable, name: BOOST_ROOT, value: E:\boost_1_53_0
>> 3. Append the boost 1.53 source code distribution dir (E:\boost_1_53_0) to the environment variable "PATH"
>> to expose later built bjam.exe file.
>> 4. Add some lines to the file user-config.jam (E:\boost_1_53_0\tools\build\v2\user-config.jam)
>> import toolset : using ;
>> using python : 2.6 : "C:\\Python266" : "C:\\Python266\\include" : "C:\\Python266\\libs" ;
>> using mpi : :
>>     <find-static-library>mpi
>>     <library-path>"D:\\Program Files (x86)\\MPICH2\\lib"
>>     <include>"D:\\Program Files (x86)\\MPICH2\\include"
>>   : 
>>     "\"D:\\Program Files (x86)\\MPICH2\\mpiexec\""
>> ;
>> 5. Open the vs2010 commandline window (Visual Studio Command Prompt 2010) 
>> 6. Navigate to boost 1.53 source code distribution dir to build the bjam.exe:
>> type bootstrap.bat
>> 7. Then navigate to the BGL-Python-0.95 source code dir and type
>> bjam --prefix=E:\boost_1_53_0\release32 stage toolset=msvc-10.0 variant=release link=static address-model=32 architecture=x86 threading=multi runtime-link=shared install
>>  
> Did you try building one of the boost.python examples (available
> somewhere like $BOOST_ROOT/libs/python/examples)? That might be the
> simplest way to test your boost.build python configuration.
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