I'm compiling boost with bjam under Windows 7 (64bit-should be irrelevant)
D:\development\boost\boost_1_44\libs\iostreams\build>bjam stage ^
--toolset=msvc-10.0 link=static ^
--build-type=complete ^
-s ZLIB_SOURCE=C:\zlib125-dll ^
-s ZLIB_LIBPATH=C:\zlib125-dll\lib ^
-s ZLIB_INCLUDE=C:\zlib125-dll\include ^
-s ZLIB_BINARY=C:\zlib125-dll
But I only get
stage/libboost_iostreams-vc100-mt-gd-1_44.lib
bin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/msvc-10.0/debug/threading-multi/boost_iostreams-vc100-mt-gd-1_44.dll
bin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/msvc-10.0/debug/threading-multi/boost_iostreams-vc100-mt-gd-1_44.lib
bin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/zlib/msvc-10.0/debug/threading-multi/boost_zlib-vc100-mt-gd-1_44.dll
bin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/zlib/msvc-10.0/debug/threading-multi/boost_zlib-vc100-mt-gd-1_44.lib
but stage/libboost_zlib-vc100-mt-gd-1_44.lib is missing.
Am I compiling something wrong?
when I try running my project that worked well with boost and self-compiled boost/thread libraries I get the following error when I include the boost zlib stuff
6>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_zlib-vc100-mt-gd-1_44.lib'
Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
It took me a while to get Boost to build correctly with zlib support.
The problem I ran into was that at some point zlib no longer included a gzio.c source file. The jamfile for the Boost build system (jamfile.v2) had a reference to the gzio module which caused it fail. The solution was to remove that reference before building.
I'm not sure this answer is relevant any longer, unless you're trying to build an old version of Boost. I believe the original build issue has been fixed in more recent versions of Boost.