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Building boost libraries in VS2013

I've been banging my head against a brick wall for over an hour trying to figure out how to get bjam to build the libraries for the components I need. For some reason it only wants to build the thread library and nothing else. How do I get it to build specific libraries? I'm using a makefile project in VS2013 to build everything. The bjam command line ends up looking like this:

bjam.exe -a -d0 address-model=64 --stagedir="$(IntDir)." --build-type=minimal --build-dir="$(IntDir).." --layout=system variant=debug --with-thread link=static threading=multi runtime-link=shared

And the output looks like this:

Building the Boost C++ Libraries.



Component configuration:

    - atomic                   : not building
    - chrono                   : not building
    - context                  : not building
    - coroutine                : not building
    - date_time                : not building
    - exception                : not building
    - filesystem               : not building
    - graph                    : not building
    - graph_parallel           : not building
    - iostreams                : not building
    - locale                   : not building
    - log                      : not building
    - math                     : not building
    - mpi                      : not building
    - program_options          : not building
    - python                   : not building
    - random                   : not building
    - regex                    : not building
    - serialization            : not building
    - signals                  : not building
    - system                   : not building
    - test                     : not building
    - thread                   : building
    - timer                    : not building
    - wave                     : not building



The Boost C++ Libraries were successfully built!

The following directory should be added to compiler include paths:

    C:\Users\JCG\MyStuff\Checkouts\ScoreTracker\ThirdParty\Boost

The following directory should be added to linker library paths:

    C:\Users\JCG\MyStuff\Checkouts\ScoreTracker\ThirdParty\Boost\x64\Debug\lib

x64\Debug\lib\libboost_atomic.lib
x64\Debug\lib\libboost_chrono.lib
x64\Debug\lib\libboost_system.lib
x64\Debug\lib\libboost_thread.lib

Having it build just the threading stuff was fine but now I need to also build the filesystem libraries since I've just started using it, but I cannot for the life of me get it to build anything else.

Solution

  • The flag "--with-thread" is telling boost bjam to only compile the thread library. Either remove it to build everything, or add the other flags you need.