From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-12 22:42:01
Kelly Burkhart <kelly_at_[hidden]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I am starting to fiddle with boost and bjam and am not able to get bjam
> to find the boost headers and libraries.
>
> I'm running SuSE 9.1 and started out using the RPMs. Since last night,
> one-by-one I've uninstalled the RPMs and replaced with freshly
> downloaded and build components.
>
> Right now I have the latest boost,bjam and boost.build releases. I
> built boost with --prefix=/opt/boost and installed it. I have
> boost.build placed in /opt/boost as well. Under my home directory I
> have a directory in which I'm trying to build a hello-world program.
>
> The directory contents:
>
>> ls
> boost-build.jam Jamfile project-root.jam tst.cpp
>> cat boost-build.jam
> boost-build /opt/boost/boost-build ;
>> cat Jamfile
> exe tst : tst.cpp ;
>> cat tst.cpp
> #include <iostream>
> #include <string>
> #include "boost/format.hpp"
>
> int main()
> {
> std::cout << boost::format("%1%, world") % "hello" << std::endl;
> return 0;
> }
>
>
> project-root.jam is empty.
>
> When I try to build with 'bjam tst' it is not able to find the boost
> headers, which makes sense, because I've not been able to figure out how
> to indicate where they live.
>
> How is this accomplished?
exe tst : tst.cpp : <include>path/to/boost/headers ;
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com