Overview
At this point you should have:
Next, you’ll download and build the boost library.
The Steps
- Download the Boost build tool bjam: BJam Download Page. As of this writing, I used 3.1.18.
- Extract this zip file somewhere. In my case, I extracted to C:\workspaces, which created C:\workspaces\boost-jam-3.1.18-1-ntx86.
- Download the Boost library from Boost download page. As of this writing, I used 1.43.0.
- Extract this zip file somewhere. In my case I extracted to C:\workspaces, which created C:\workspaces\boost_1_43_0. (Note that you’ll need roughly 3 gb of storage to extract and build the boost library.)
- Make sure that BJam, mingw\bin and msys\bin are in your PATH. Here is a batch file that can do that:
set PATH="\Program Files\eclipse\mingw";%PATH%
set PATH="\Program Files\eclipse\msys";%PATH%
set PATH=C:\workspaces\boost-jam-3.1.18-1-ntx86;%PATH%- Switch to the boost directory:
C:\>cd \workspaces\boost_1_43_0
C:\workspaces\boost_1_43_0>- Build boost:
C:\workspaces\boost_1_43_0>bjam --tool=gcc
... after much output ...
The Boost C++ Libraries were successfully built!
The following directory should be added to compiler include paths:
C:\workspaces\boost_1_43_0
The following directory should be added to linker library paths:
C:\workspaces\boost_1_43_0\stage\lib- Verify that there are several library files in lib stage\lib directory under the boost directory
C:\workspaces\boost_1_43_0\stage\lib>dir
Volume in drive C has no label.
Volume Serial Number is A8D5-BA48
Directory of C:\workspaces\boost_1_43_0\stage\lib
06/11/2010 09:20 AM <DIR> .
06/11/2010 09:20 AM <DIR> ..
06/08/2010 04:55 PM 127,556 libboost_date_time-mgw44-mt-1_43.a
06/08/2010 04:54 PM 571,258 libboost_date_time-mgw44-mt-d-1_43.a
06/11/2010 09:15 AM 597,310 libboost_date_time-vc90-mt-1_43.lib
... and so on ...
06/11/2010 09:13 AM 99,148,416 libboost_wave-vc90-mt-gd-1_43.lib
06/11/2010 09:13 AM 99,148,416 libboost_wave-vc90-mt-gd.lib
06/11/2010 09:20 AM 45,626,710 libboost_wave-vc90-mt.lib
06/08/2010 05:00 PM 784,720 libboost_wserialization-mgw44-mt-1_43.a
06/08/2010 04:52 PM 7,823,906 libboost_wserialization-mgw44-mt-d-1_43.a
06/11/2010 09:18 AM 7,854,990 libboost_wserialization-vc90-mt-1_43.lib
06/11/2010 09:12 AM 18,498,372 libboost_wserialization-vc90-mt-gd-1_43.l
ib
06/11/2010 09:12 AM 18,498,372 libboost_wserialization-vc90-mt-gd.lib
06/11/2010 09:18 AM 7,854,990 libboost_wserialization-vc90-mt.lib
130 File(s) 1,032,926,286 bytes
2 Dir(s) 4,791,799,808 bytes free
C:\workspaces\boost_1_43_0\stage\lib>
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