I was looking in the jam files, how the name of library is constructed. Example: libboost_log-mgw46-mt-1_48.dll I would like to ignore the last part, how to pass linker the -o parameter with my c...

I'm trying to build only a subset of boost libraries. For example, I have this code: test.cpp: #include <boost/thread.hpp> int main (){ return 0; } I then do ./bcp --scan test.cpp ~/d...

I need to build boost to use the regex library. I was able to creat bjam using bootstrap.sh like so: ./bootstrap.sh --with-toolset=mingw Note - if I leave out the --with-toolset=mingw argument ...

I'm building Boost (I'm using System and FileSystem) for MinGW using bjam: bjam --toolset=gcc stage And it builds fine, but I want to be able to statically link to it (I have to have a single fi...

I'm just trying to compile the "hello world" example of boost.python WITHOUT using all the bjam magic. My boost.python installation is working, I did succesfully build the example with bjam and pas...

I am working on a C++ project where I'd like to use boost's serialization libraries. I downloaded and installed the latest boost libraries from boost's home page. When I tried to compile and run ...

When building Boost binary libraries with bjam, one may specify which compiler to use, without specifying a particular compiler version, by using certain values for the --toolset= option. For examp...

I'm using bcp to extract Boost.Archive from Boost. Unfortunately I can't build this extract. Boost.Archive is not a header-only library. bjam complains Unable to load Boost.Build: could not find ...

Due to quota restrictions I really need to build a project that I'm working on with all of the temporary files and build products in a separate directory (in my case /tmp/somewhere). I'm used to d...

I'm building the boost libraries with bjam for both the intel compiler and vs2008, and I can't tell what optimizations are being passed to the compiler from bjam. For one of the compiler's gcc, I c...

I need to add to compiler flags using bjam. So either I need a way to append to the existing flags -- like CXXFLAGS+=whatever using gmake -- or I need to know the currently-used value of cxxflags s...

I've tried reading the documentation but it is rather impenetrable so I'm hoping someone may have a simple answer. I want to define a new 'variant', based on 'debug', which just adds some macro def...

I recently built the Boost libraries in Linux and noticed the package needed an executable called bjam in order to do the build. Is bjam related to jam? If it is related to jam, did they somehow ex...

I compiled the Boost C++ libraries as follows: bjam install variant=release link=static threading=multi runtime-link=static No errors. Then I compiled the following source: #include <boost/t...

I'm scratching my head, trying to figure out why the import libraries are not generated when I build the Boost libraries on my machine. More specifically, building the DLLs works fine, but where I ...

What is Boost Jam and is Jam worth migrating to? I understand that jam is build system built by perforce however I am not sure how the boost jam & regular jam is different. I'm also hoping ...

I can't find a pre-built set of MSVC++ libs for Boost 1.37.0, only the source. I don't understand how their weird build system works... are there any places I can find a download of a visual studio...

What harm can come from defining BOOST_DISABLE_ABI_HEADERS when compiling boost? From the boost file: boost_1_37_0\boost\config\user.hpp // BOOST_DISABLE_ABI_HEADERS: Stops boost headers from in...