Accelerated installation - simplified source assembly

Question

As mentioned in docs

what I need to install to run the commands:

bootstrap .\bjam 

The BoostPro Computing people support the Boost installer for Windows, but if I first ran the installer and downloaded the minimum assembly and then ran the installer again, the installer did not find that I had already installed Boost already, and I needed some more libraries. Is there any way?

Answer 1

First set the BOOST_ROOT environment variable:

WinXP:

 set BOOST_ROOT=D:\your\boost\sources 

then in the BOOST_ROOT directory do:

 boostrap.bat 

this will create your bjam.exe and its environment. The next step is to call:

 bjam toolset=msvc stage 

This will compile your boost library and put all the libraries in a folder:

 %BOOST_ROOT%\stage\lib 

If you want to build everything, use:

 bjam toolset=msvc -a --build-type=complete stage 

You can install install instead, it will just install it in lib. During construction, a huge bin.v2 directory will be created with all the object files. General installation of aprox: 1.5 GB for libs (shared + static + debug & release).

Answer 2

I also found the link in another post for boosting binary files. Just download and its very useful. If someone tried this and had problems, let us know