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beginer1
beginer1

Reputation: 51

Installing Boost libraries to a custom directory in ~ (home)

I'm trying to build the boost libraries

as i see at the manual from,

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_62_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#easy-build-and-install

As described at the manual, I'm running the command,

$ ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=path/to/installation/prefix

with --prefix=~/boost-libs, like this,

$ ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=~/boost-libs

so the libs to be placed in my home directory.

After that I'm running,

./b2 install

I'm also tried to run it like this,

./b2 install --prefix=~/boost-libs

But nothing to be placed at 'boost-libs' in my home folder.

I also tried to run,

$ sudo ./bootstrap.sh

and then

$ sudo ./b2 install

so the installation will go to '/usr/local/lib', and it does work, but not succeeded to install to a custom directory.

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3238

Answers (1)

beginer1
beginer1

Reputation: 51

As mentioned in the comments above,

Running it using $HOME instead of '~/' solved the problem,

./bootstrap.sh --prefix=$HOME/boost-libs

Thanks

For more details about $HOME and '~/' at that link,

Difference between $HOME and '~' (tilde)?

Upvotes: 4

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