I´m totally new to boost, I just downloaded boost_1_63_0 and I´m trying to build the tutorial example located in \boost_1_63_0\libs\python\example\tutorial by following the tutorial documentation <http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_62_0/libs/python/doc/html/tutorial/index.html> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_62_0/libs/python/doc/html/tutorial/ index.html The example is quite simple: it only contains 4 files: 1. hello.cpp 2. hello.py 3. Jamfile 4. ../Jamroot For simplicity I´m pasting below the content of each file : // hello.cpp #include <boost/python/module.hpp> #include <boost/python/def.hpp> char const* greet() { return "hello, world"; } BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(hello_ext) { using namespace boost::python; def("greet", greet); } // hello.py import hello_ext print(hello_ext.greet()) And finally the boost configuration file: // Jamfile import python ; project tutorial : requirements <location>. ; python-extension hello_ext : hello.cpp ; run-test hello : hello_ext hello.py ; alias test : hello ; explicit test ; // ../Jamroot import python ; if ! [ python.configured ]{ ECHO "warning: no Python configured in user-config.jam" ; ECHO "warning: will use default configuration" ; using python ;} # Adjust the following if Boost.Python isn't installed in a default location lib boost_python ; project : requirements# <include>/path/to/boost/python <library>boost_python; rule run-test ( test-name : sources + ){ import testing ; testing.make-test run-pyd : $(sources) : : $(test-name) ;} build-project quickstart ; build-project tutorial ;if [ python.numpy ]{ build-project numpy ;} When I execute bjam.exe from my cmd prompt (after properly adding in the environment variables the path where bjam.exe is located) I get the following errors: ...found 12 targets......updating 5 targets... compile-c-c++ hello.obj hello.cpp hello.cpp(7) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'boost/python/module.hpp': No such file or directory call "C:\Users\...\AppData\Local\Temp\b2_msvc_11.0_vcvarsall_x86.cmd" >nul cl /Zm800 -nologo @"hello.obj.rsp" ...failed compile-c-c++ hello.obj......skipped <p.>hello_ext.pyd for lack of <p.>hello.obj......skipped <p.>hello_ext.pdb for lack of <p.>hello.obj......skipped <p.>hello for lack of <p.>hello_ext.pyd......failed updating 1 target......skipped 4 targets... When I try and build the project from VS2012 I can build it properly because i know hot to add additional include libraries to the project, but I cannot find the proper way to config the Jamfile to make it build from command line. I tried to config the Jamroot file by changing the path to the boost/python libraries local path but with no luck. I wonder where and how should I add the absoulute path of the boost/python libraries. Any help would be much appreciated Thanks in advance!