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bjam is the old name of the engine used by Boost.Build The new name is b2

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Understanding bjam's targets, and how to specify new ones?

I'm having problems understanding how to specify and invoke targets with bjam. By this, I mean that I want to provide bjam with command-line targets to build (from a Makefile actually) that correspond to different aspects of the build process,…
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how to add a new compiler switch in bjam

I need to compile a library in managed c++ and looking into msvc.jam, I cannot find any feature that would add the /clr switch to my compile flags. How would I add such a feature? If possible, I would like to avoid modifying msvc.jam.
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Build Boost 1.45 using MinGW

Try to compile Boost 1.45 on Windows XP using MinGW. I did it a year ago and almost forgot how to repeat it. %PATH% contains MinGW path. user-config.jam contains using gcc ; bjam (the ntx86 one) from here. Output: > bjam…
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boost b2 build 64 bit results in argument error missing argument

I am trying to build 64 bit libraries using boost's b2. I followed all the steps to the tee but I keep getting an annoying error about a missing argument setup-script. Here is my user-config.jam file that I put into my HOME directory: #…
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Cannot compile moses due to old boost version

I tried to compile moses(one of the statistical machine translation system) following the steps specified here I don't have root privileges so I used wget to installed newer version of boost. As the documentation above says, I tried to compile…
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Controlling build order (for auto-generated code) with Boost.Build (bbv2 / bjam)

I am using an external tool to generate source code for an application at work. The tool takes a directory tree full of JSON files and generates C++ and some other utility files. I have been able to set up a rule and a target that will re-run the…
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How can I get Clang colors to work in boost-bjam?

b2 release link=static toolset=clang works, but it does not show the nice colors that I find useful in clang's output.
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Boost: Bootstrap.bat compilation failure to build bjam

I would like to use the Boost Filesystem library. I am using CodeBolcks for development on Windows. I am following the "Getting Started on Windows". http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#install-boost-build. I made…
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Portable compile parameters of a Jamfile

Here is a Jamfile that I currently use to build a test. exe file_test : file_test.cpp ../src/file.hpp ../src//file : --std=c++11 : -ltag ; Is there any way to switch to c++11 standard without…
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fatal error C1027 while building Boost 1.49.0

I'm trying to build Boost 1.49.0 using MSVC2010 and it fails with the following error: file…
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Building basic Boost applications with bjam

I can find tons of general purpose documentation on Boost.Build, but surprisingly nothing on how to use it to build simple Boost applications. I compiled Boost for mingw with bjam, got all the libraries and includes in C:\Boost. Now what would a…
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Add to include path ( -I ) in Jamroot

I have a boost iostreams based project and executing export CPATH=/apps/bzip2/include/ before bjam link=static works. Is there a way to set this in the Jamroot : project infracore : requirements $(PROJECT_ROOT)_install …
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Add -L to project in bjam

I have boost_iostreams in my project and it depends on bzip2 and zlib. Hence running export LIBRARY_PATH=/apps/bzip2/lib:/apps/zlib/lib and then running bjam link=static works. Is there a way to set this in the Jamroot, so that the environment…
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How to compile Boost.Process library?

So there is Boost.Process 2006, Boost.Process 2008 and most recent Boost.Process seems like 2009 by looking at sources) I need some kind of step by step guidance on how to compile that beast. Because I deffenetly do not get how to do such thing. So…
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How can I work with filenames with spaces in bjam?

I need to describe an external library in a Jamfile. The location of the library is held in an environment variable. set EX_LIB_PATH=C:\Program Files\Ext Here is the snippet from the Jamfile: --snip-- lib extlin : :…
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