On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Vladimir Prus<vladimir@codesourcery.com> wrote:

Shaolin wrote:

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How do I include boost dependencies in my makefile ?

/usr/local/boost_1_39_0/boost/stage/lib/libboost_program_options-gcc43-mt-1_39.a /usr/local/boost_1_39_0/boost/stage/lib/libboost_thread-gcc43-mt-1_39.a -lpthread

You add those to the linker invocation command in your makefile. Alternatively, you can use:

       -L/usr/local/boost_1_39_0/boost/stage/lib/ -lboost_program_options-gcc43-mt-1_39        -lboost_thread-gcc43-mt-1_39 -lpthread

Note that this question has nothing to do with C++ Boost. I recommend that you read manuals on make and gcc to get more detailed answer.

I think the question he was asking wasn't how to use make, but the boost sorta-specific problem of linking the correct boost library depending on whether we are building release, debug, multi-threaded, and so on. Since the spelling changes, it can be painful to manage by hand. We built a make-based build system that supports some of boost name generation, such as BOOST_LIBS += thread it would generate the proper link line, with the properly decorated library name based on whether or not we're building in release or debug, multi-thread or single, etc. I think that a "standard" boost makefile library that can be included by other makefiles to make it easier to include and link boost libs would be very useful. Chris

2009/8/25 Chris Uzdavinis <cuz...@gmail.com> CMake is of great help for that!

thank you, can you give a one or two line example on how use cmake to choose the right boost library file? Alfredo

Hi, 2009/8/26 Alfredo Correa <alfredo.correa@gmail.com>

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2009/8/25 Chris Uzdavinis <cuz...@gmail.com> CMake is of great help for that!

thank you, can you give a one or two line example on how use cmake to choose the right boost library file?

Here is an example: project( MyProject ) set( Boost_ADDITIONAL_VERSIONS "1.38.0" "1.39.0" ) set( Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS OFF ) set( Boost_USE_MULTITHREAD ON ) find_package( Boost 1.36.0 REQUIRED ) if( Boost_FOUND ) include_directories( ${Boost_INCLUDE_DIR} ) link_directories( ${Boost_LIBRARY_DIR} ) else() message( FATAL_ERROR "Boost not found ! Please set Boost directories !" ) endif() add_executable( projectbinary myproject.cpp ) target_link_libraries( projectbinary ${Boost_LIBRARIES} ) Have a look at cmake documentation for more details ( http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake2.6docs.html and in particular http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake2.6docs.html#module:FindBoost). Regards, Olivier

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