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kunigami
kunigami

Reputation: 3086

Building a subset of boost libraries

I'm trying to build only a subset of boost libraries. For example, I have this code:

test.cpp:

#include <boost/thread.hpp>

int main (){
    return 0;
}

I then do 

./bcp --scan test.cpp ~/dev/boost_compact/

So the dependencies files are copied to ~/dev/boost_compact/boost.

Then, following this answer, I copy all files at the root of a regular boost and also the tools directory and run

./bootstrap
./bjam
./bjam install

This does copy all the headers to a destination directory, but it does not build/copy the libraries. This same set of actions does work in the full boost. What am I doing wrong?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 2499

Answers (2)

kunigami
kunigami

Reputation: 3086

Solved the problem. The reason the libraries were not being copied was that I was using the wrong boost directory, that is

./bcp --scan --boost=<path to boost build directory> test.cpp ~/dev/boost_compact/

when I should be using

./bcp --scan --boost=<path to boost source directory> test.cpp ~/dev/boost_compact/

If now you run 

./bootstrap
./bjam
./bjam install

The libraries will be build.

Upvotes: 2

PiNoYBoY82
PiNoYBoY82

Reputation: 1678

Maybe a permission issue?

or

Perhaps try explicitly setting the libdir?

bjam --libdir=path/to/lib install

Upvotes: 0

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