extractin/building boost program_options

Question

I have successfully installed boost, compiled binaries, and built bcp. I have also been able to extract the regex library using bcp. After doing this, I found a gcc_gen.sh script and bunch of makefiles under

my_exported_boost_regex/libs/regex/build/

and used one of them to make

my_exported_boost_regex/libs/regex/build/gcc/libboost_regex-gcc-1_43.a

This is the library I use in my code and everything works great.

Now I want to do the same thing for program_options but after I extract all the files using bcp, I'm confused as to what to do next. The only file available under

my_exported_boost_program_options/libs/program_options/build/

is Jamfile.v2 and I can't for the life of me figure out how to use that to build the binary. It seems to me something is missing here.

Appreciate your help. Thanks,

J

Answer 1

you have to build boost from toplevel directory with bjam. Please refer to the Getting Started Docs

Answer 2

I finally figured out that I have to include "build" in addition to my libraries of interest in the bcp call like this:

bcp program_options build ../my_exported_boost_program_options/

This apparently places the appropriate bjam config files in the exported dir and I can then call bjam from that directory and build my exported libs.

J