Boost Libraries Installation
This post is really a subpost I made while I was writing a larger post where I explain how to download and use MySQL connector C++ libraries (MySQL C++ with mysql-connector).
That post soon became pretty big due to the amount of stuff you need to configure in order to achieve the goal, therefore I decided to split it in smaller posts that one one side are useful on their own and on the other helps in keeping the main post they came from slightly smaller and easier to follow. Because of this I will keep these posts quite short.
If you are interested in this post as well, you can fint it there:
Let’s enter in the core of the topic now!
Boost Libraries (1.56.0) – Download
Let’s download them here:
Just click on the Download link:
Click then on the zip file:
Once downloaded extract it, for example in the same lib folder, so you should now have:
Boost Libraries (1.56.0) – Install
Enter into the boost_1_56_0 folder and execute the file “bootstrap.bat“:
C:\libs\boost_1_56_0>bootstrap.bat
The output should be:
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Building Boost.Build engine Bootstrapping is done. To build, run: .\b2 To adjust configuration, edit 'project-config.jam'. Further information: - Command line help: .\b2 --help - Getting started guide: http://boost.org/more/getting_started/windows.html - Boost.Build documentation: http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/index.html |
The next step, is to execute “.\b2”. We could use some parameter here, such as:
b2 install –prefix=PREFIX
where PREFIX is a directory where you want Boost.Build to be installed.
Optionally, add PREFIX/bin to your PATH environment variable.
Optionally, add PREFIX/bin to your PATH environment variable.
We will be ok with the default setting, therefore we will just execute:
C:\libs\boost_1_56_0>b2 install
It will start to compile the code… it will take a bit and a loooong output.
The initial part will be something along this line:
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Performing configuration checks - 32-bit : yes - arm : no - mips1 : no - power : no - sparc : no - x86 : yes - has_icu builds : no warning: Graph library does not contain MPI-based parallel components. note: to enable them, add "using mpi ;" to your user-config.jam - zlib : no - iconv (libc) : no - iconv (separate) : no - icu : no - icu (lib64) : no - message-compiler : yes - compiler-supports-ssse3 : yes - compiler-supports-avx2 : no - gcc visibility : no - long double support : yes warning: skipping optional Message Passing Interface (MPI) library. note: to enable MPI support, add "using mpi ;" to user-config.jam. note: to suppress this message, pass "--without-mpi" to bjam. note: otherwise, you can safely ignore this message. warning: No python installation configured and autoconfiguration note: failed. See http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/building.html note: for configuration instructions or pass --without-python to note: suppress this message and silently skip all Boost.Python targets - zlib : no (cached) Component configuration: - atomic : building - chrono : building - container : building - context : building - coroutine : building - date_time : building - exception : building - filesystem : building - graph : building - graph_parallel : building - iostreams : building - locale : building - log : building - math : building - mpi : building - program_options : building - python : building - random : building - regex : building - serialization : building - signals : building - system : building - test : building - thread : building - timer : building - wave : building ...patience... ...patience... ...patience... ...patience... ...found 36632 targets... ...updating 12276 targets... common.mkdir C:\Boost common.mkdir C:\Boost\include common.mkdir C:\Boost\include\boost-1_56 common.mkdir C:\Boost\include\boost-1_56\boost common.copy C:\Boost\include\boost-1_56\boost\align.hpp C:\libs\boost_1_56_0\boost\align.hpp 1 file(s) copied. common.copy C:\Boost\include\boost-1_56\boost\aligned_storage.hpp C:\libs\boost_1_56_0\boost\aligned_storage.hpp 1 file(s) copied. common.copy C:\Boost\include\boost-1_56\boost\any.hpp C:\libs\boost_1_56_0\boost\any.hpp 1 file(s) copied. common.copy C:\Boost\include\boost-1_56\boost\array.hpp C:\libs\boost_1_56_0\boost\array.hpp 1 file(s) copied. common.copy C:\Boost\include\boost-1_56\boost\asio.hpp C:\libs\boost_1_56_0\boost\asio.hpp 1 file(s) copied. common.copy C:\Boost\include\boost-1_56\boost\assert.hpp C:\libs\boost_1_56_0\boost\assert.hpp 1 file(s) copied. common.copy C:\Boost\include\boost-1_56\boost\assign.hpp C:\libs\boost_1_56_0\boost\assign.hpp 1 file(s) copied. common.copy C:\Boost\include\boost-1_56\boost\atomic.hpp C:\libs\boost_1_56_0\boost\atomic.hpp 1 file(s) copied. ... VERY LONG OUTPUT ... common.mkdir bin.v2\libs\timer\build\msvc-10.0\release common.mkdir bin.v2\libs\timer\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static common.mkdir bin.v2\libs\timer\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\timer\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\auto_timers_construction.obj auto_timers_construction.cpp compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\timer\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\cpu_timer.obj cpu_timer.cpp msvc.archive bin.v2\libs\timer\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\libboost_timer-vc100-mt-1_56.lib common.copy C:\Boost\lib\libboost_timer-vc100-mt-1_56.lib bin.v2\libs\timer\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\libboost_timer-vc100-mt-1_56.lib 1 file(s) copied. common.mkdir bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release common.mkdir bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static common.mkdir bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\instantiate_cpp_exprgrammar.obj instantiate_cpp_exprgrammar.cpp compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\instantiate_cpp_grammar.obj instantiate_cpp_grammar.cpp compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\instantiate_cpp_literalgrs.obj instantiate_cpp_literalgrs.cpp compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\instantiate_defined_grammar.obj instantiate_defined_grammar.cpp compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\instantiate_predef_macros.obj instantiate_predef_macros.cpp compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\instantiate_re2c_lexer.obj instantiate_re2c_lexer.cpp compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\instantiate_re2c_lexer_str.obj instantiate_re2c_lexer_str.cpp compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\token_ids.obj token_ids.cpp compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\wave_config_constant.obj wave_config_constant.cpp common.mkdir bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\cpplexer common.mkdir bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\cpplexer\re2clex compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\cpplexer\re2clex\aq.obj aq.cpp compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\cpplexer\re2clex\cpp_re.obj cpp_re.cpp msvc.archive bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\libboost_wave-vc100-mt-1_56.lib common.copy C:\Boost\lib\libboost_wave-vc100-mt-1_56.lib bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\release\link-static\threading-multi\libboost_wave-vc100-mt-1_56.lib 1 file(s) copied. ...updated 12276 targets... |
Once this is done you should see a new folder on your drive: “C:\Boost\“
This is how the situation should look like at this point:
That’s it for this part.
As mentioned this is a subpart I splitted from a larger topic.
If you want to continue the reading of the original topic that originates this continue here: MySQL C++ with mysql-connector
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