I downloaded the Boost libraries and now I want to build only a few of the libraries. What would be the right command for this? Apparently the build-type=complete
option gives me too much.
I am using Windows XP and want to use Bjam to compile Boost and MinGW to finally use it. At the moment I think I need the libraries Boost.filesystem, Boost.ProgramOptions and Boost.System.
Another question: Where do I put the header-only libraries?
In step 5.2.4 of Getting Started you can instruct b2
which libraries to build:
./b2 --with-program_options --with-filesystem --with-system
Alternatively, use ./b2 --show-libraries
to see a list of all libraries that are not header-only.
Following is an excerpt from the page:
In particular, to limit the amount of time spent building, you may be interested in:
- reviewing the list of library names with
--show-libraries
- limiting which libraries get built with the
--with-<library-name>
or--without-<library-name>
options- choosing a specific build variant by adding release or debug to the command line.
Note: b2
command depends upon boost version so use following commands as per your boost version(Also, in this case use --with-libraries=<comma-seperated-library-names>
version instead of --with-<library-name>
):
./configure
for 1.38.0
and earlier ./bootstrap.sh
for 1.39.0
onwards till 1.46.0