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Amani
Amani

Reputation: 18183

Including Boost libraries into standard MinGW path

how can I include Boost libraries (together with its includes files) in the standard search path of MinGW so that I can just do something like this;

#include <filesystem.hpp>
using boost::filesystem;

and avoiding adding -I, -l, and -L in Makefile, just like C++ standard library? (I'm using compiled boost 1.51.0 on Windows 7)

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2523

Answers (2)

rioki
rioki

Reputation: 6118

The way I do it (for /usr/local) I add to my globally defined CXXFLAGS. I always use MinGW in conjunction with MSys. I changed the fstab (C:\MinGW\msys\1.0\etc\fstab) to map C:\Users to /home. (That should be the default anyway.) Then I define a .profile file in my user directory that contains my "default" CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS. So in my case:

export CFLAGS=-g -Wall -I/usr/local/include
export CXXFLAGS=-g -Wall -I/usr/local/include
export LDFLAGS=/usr/local/lib

In the makefile, I then only extend the variables as needed:

LDFLAGS += -lawsomelib

This works like a charm and has the advantage that I can locally redefine CXXFLAGS in special cases. Basically you should assume in a makefile that the variables CC, CXX, CXXFLAGS, CFLAGS and LDFLAGS are already defined and contain useful stuff. This is the portable and sort of standard way to do it.

(NOTE: /usr/local is not used as standard include location in vanilla MinGW + MSys.)

Upvotes: 2

nurettin
nurettin

Reputation: 11756

By default GCC looks for C_INCLUDE_PATH and CPP_INCLUDE_PATH environment variables. Instead of doing -I, you can add the following to your .bashrc:

export CPP_INCLUDE_PATH=/path/to/your/boost/header

Upvotes: 1

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