[C++-sig] Building tutorial example out of the boost tree, on Windows

[John Reid]

On 07/10/13 16:21, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "John Reid" <j.reid at mail.cryst.bbk.ac.uk>
> ...
>> Have you tried pointing the use-project boost to the boost source
>> directory rather than the boost installation directory? I don't think
>> boost installs the projects, just headers and libraries.
> 
> I installed Boost using the Windows installer from http://softlayer-dal.dl.sourceforge.net/project/boost/boost-binaries/1.54.0/boost_1_54_0-msvc-10.0-64.exe; maybe that didn't come with source or something?  It only created \local\boost_1_54_0.  After running that installer I did still have to do the 
>   bootstrap; .\b2 toolset=msvc
> thing to get bjam.
> 
> And now that I look at that download URL, what Raghav says about using a 32-bit version might be more sensible; my python is stock 2.7.3 Windows 32-bit (not cygwin or anything weird) and I'm only looking to build extensions for a 32-bit python at this point.
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> I did download the source distribution, but it doesn't have a Jamfile in its root dir either.  Maybe I have to unpack it and run b2 to get that... I guess I'll try that next.
> 

I've always found that the easiest way but then I haven't used Windows
for some time now.