On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Vladimir Prus<vladimir@codesourcery.com> wrote:
Monte Jones wrote:
Hi All,
I need to be able to use Boost in a virtual environment, specifically, Sun's Virtual Box. I'm further limited in the company I am working for has not approved any Boost upgrades since 1.34 for use. I thought the best way to approach this would be to build Boost Jam and then Boost within the virtual box. Below is what I've done so far.
Downloaded platform independent zip files for Boost Jam 3.14.1 and Boost 1.34.0 and saved into directory I called Boost
Please use tar.gz/tar.bz2 files. zip files have dos line endings, and Unix shell is very particular about that.
I regularly run Boost builds and regression tests in a VirtualBox Linux guest on a Windows host. It is pretty much problem free. But as Volodya points out, if it is a Linux or Unix guest, you need to treat it as such regardless of the host O/S. Likewise, if it is a Windows guest, treat it as Windows even if the host happens to be Linux or Unix. --Beman