Re: [Boost-users] Trying to compile boost 1.40

Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Vladimir Prus wrote:

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Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

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Hi there,

I am trying to compile boost 1.40 to start playing with the PBGL. I tried using bjam and followed the basic instructions but it fails to inspect my system and leads to:

$ ./bjam install Note: Building Boost.Regex with Unicode/ICU support enabled Using ICU in  /usr/include warning: Graph library does not contain optional GraphML reader. note: to enable GraphML support, set EXPAT_INCLUDE and EXPAT_LIBPATH to the note: directories containing the Expat headers and libraries, respectively. warning: Graph library does not contain MPI-based parallel components. note: to enable them, add "using mpi ;" to your user_config.jam warning: skipping optional Message Passing Interface (MPI) library. note: to enable MPI support, add "using mpi ;" to user-config.jam.

Did you do as suggested above?

I did 4 google search on 'user_config.jam boost', they all linked to deprecated documentation (they would not even be available from google cache), so I simply gave up. I only need the PBGL part, from VTK which is cmake based, so it seems more natural to use cmake for building boost.

Did you read getting started guide? It has direct link to Boost.Build documentation. The specific page you need is: http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/configuration.html If you have used bootstrap.sh, you can also edit project-config.jam in root folder of Boost. Also, it seems the above message has a typo -- it has user-config.jam in one place, and user_config.jam in another (ironically, printed by PBGL). I'll fix the misspelled one. - Volodya