Otto wrote:
Hi,
I'm very new to C++ and Boost. I want to make a simple desktop application (a game editor, basically read/write a binary file) using QtCreator. Right now I'm only interested in Boost.Test for the unit tests.
I tried to install using the instructions in "Getting started" but wasn't able to, probably because of bad english and lack of C++ knowledge.
I unpacked Boost to /home/otto/boost_1_44_0/
From there, I ran:
$ mkdir dist $ ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/home/otto/boost_1_44_0/dist --show-libraries --with-libraries=test
$ ./bjam install
It seems that config had no effect as it built everything (instead of just test)
Try passing --with-test to bjam invocation.
and to bin.v2/.
That's expected. bin.v2 is the build directory while the --prefix
A few "cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/lib/libboost_wave.a': Permission denied" errors too. What went wrong?
You don't have permission to write to /usr/local/lib, apparently. Just like with every other Unix program, you need to be root to install things there. - Volodya