Boost C++ Dev Setup

Get Python

I use boost.python, so python must be installed before building boost. No need to build from source, just get the Windows installer from http://python.org/. I'm using python 2.6 right now, haven't tried the 3.X series yet. Add C:\Python26 to your Windows PATH environment variable. (You can do it when you modify that below.)

Boost Build

The boost windows docs has all the instructions you really need to build boost. This guide only adapts that to my local dev conventions

Get the boost source from http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/
Also, get the Windows bjam .exe, currently rev'd at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-jam/boost-jam-3.1.17-1-ntx86.zip/download

Make your dev dirs. I use cygwin, you can easily translate to the Windows command shell. Unless you have tar, though, make sure you download the zip distro of boost. Also, I use the cygpath of "/" instead of "/cygdrive", i.e., I run mount -s --change-cygdrive-prefix /

cd "/c/Documents and Settings/Rod/My Documents"
mkdir -p Devel/local
cd Devel/local
mkdir bin lib src tmp
cd src
tar jxf ~/Downloads/boost_1_39_0.tar.bz2 
cd ../bin
unzip ~/Downloads/boost-jam-3.1.17-1-ntx86.zip 
mv boost-jam-3.1.17-1-ntx86/bjam.exe  .
chmod +x bjam.exe
rm -rf boost-jam-3.1.17-1-ntx86/

Add the Devel/local/bin path to your Windows path variable (Control Panel->System, Advanced Tab, Environment Variables Button):

Start a Visual C++ command shell, i.e., menu to something like:

Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 x86 tools.
C:/Users/rod/KlickFu/Devel/local/src/boost_1_39_0>bjam --build-dir=../../tmp/boost --prefix=../.. --toolset=msvc --threading=multi --runtime-link=static  link=static debug release install

Actually, I'm currently building with...

C:Develboost_1_43_0>bjam --build-dir=../tmp --prefix=../boost --build-type=complete runtime-link=static --without-graph --without-graph_parallel --without-mpi --without-wave msvc install

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