Robert Vinluan wrote:

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Right now, in order to compile and link to the iostreams library with zlib/bzip2 support, I have to include the .cpp files in my project (as mentioned in the boost docs). I'm not too fond of this idea as I want to keep 3rd-party code outside of my project build.

Perhaps I have missed something in the docs, but is there another way to link with the iostreams library without including the .cpp files?

Huh ? I don't understand... forgive me for my ignorance, since I'm probably missing your point, but I just, for example, #include and it just works, without linking to any special lib... what exactly are your needs that require linking against a lib? Or is it that bzip2/zlib support needs linking with a boost library ?

Regards,

Leon Mergen http://www.solatis.com/

I have the exact same problem Robert describes. I have compiled iostreams on Windows XP with zlib support (using my downloaded copy of zlib) and I added the various ZLIB parameters to bjam for compiling iostreams with zlib support. However, anytime I try to compile/link a program using iostreams with zlib, I get the same error message. (It's looking for a non-existent zlib library to link to, instead of the zlib library I compiled boost with).