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Building libtorrent with openssl with BJam

I am trying to build libtorrent (http://www.libtorrent.org/) using the provided jamfile. If I try to build it in its vanilla state everything goes well. I am then building using this command:

bjam msvc-12.0 boost=source

However I want to build it with OpenSSL which there seem to be support for. This is where I run into problems. Most likely because it is the first time I use Bjam (actually anything else than make files). I now try to run the following command:

bjam msvc-12.0 boost=source encryption=openssl

Now the compiler starts to complain about not finding the OpenSSL include files. So I guess I have to include this path in the JAM file. But I have no idea where. I also tried to add the path into the INCLUDE environment varaible in windows but that doesn't seem to be picked up by BJAM or msvc. Any suggestions?

Solution

  • My understanding of how this is normally done on windows is by installing libraries and headers into visual studio's include and lib folders. (That's how I install openssl on windows at least).

    The jamfile is also supposed to pick up CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS environment variables, which you could use to introduce the library- and include paths. However, it only does this when boost=system is specified, i.e. you're building against "system" boost libraries instead of from source.