I found the reason, the following command works for provious case: C:\boost_1_38_0>bjam toolset=msvc variant=debug,release link=static threading=multi runtime-link=shared -sZLIB_SOURCE=E:\zlib123 -sBZIP2_SOURCE=E:\bzip2-1.0.5 --with-iostreams "--prefix=e:\program files\boost" install The problem is the space in the path, should enquote --prefix= too. On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:33 PM, Dancefire wrote:

Hi,

I am going to build boost::iostreams and install to some location. I tried following command:

C:\boost_1_38_0>bjam toolset=msvc variant=debug,release link=static threading=multi runtime-link=shared -sZLIB_SOURCE=E:\zlib123 -sBZIP2_SOURCE=E:\bzip2-1.0.5 --prefix="E:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_38_0\" --with-iostreams install

However, I got following error:

error: wrong library name 'iostreams install' in the --with-<library> option.

It looks like that bjam consider install as a part of the library name. Is anything wrong with me? or it is a bug of bjam?

Tao Wang