Re: [Boost-users] Struggling to implement bzip2 on windows

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Hi All,

I'm a VS2008 user, trying to use the ESBTL library for a project, which implements Boost to do many operations.

ESBTL #includes , which has been disabled for the Boostpro installation of windows.

Quite simply, I'm struggling to get bzip2 installed and set up so that boost runs with bzip2 enabled.

Has anybody done this before? Can anyone offer me more information than "compile from source?"

best, Jared Quoting "Pfligersdorffer, Christian" :

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Hi Jared,

if you have the sources of bzip2 on your computer you can run

bjam ... -sBZIP2_SOURCE=the/path -with-iostreams

to build boost::iostreams with BZIP2-support. You can find some documentation about this in the library docs.

Hope this helps,

-- Christian Pfligersdorffer Software Engineering http://www.eos.info

Jared James Thompson wrote: Christian,

Please don't top post.

Thanks for your response. The library docs weren't terribly helpful on this topic. What is supposed to go in place of the ellipsis in your statement (...)?

you follow the getting started docs for windows I do the following to build all static libs using static crt: bjam link=static runtime-link=static debug -sBZIP2_SOURCE=the/path stage bjam define=_SECURE_SCL=0 link=static runtime-link=static release -sBZIP2_SOURCE=the/path stage

My understanding of bjam is that it goes looking for boost-build.jam and I don't understand this process of flagging it with arguments. Does bjam need a modified boost-build.jam source file to do operations like this?

Just download and use the pre-built windows bjam.exe Hope this helps, Jeff