如何仅导出仅标头增强库的子集？

Question

From the boost library, I only require circular_buffer for an android project (maybe some other later, but it will always be header-only). Thus, I would like to create a distribution containing only the required files.

I tried using the official distribution, and executing:

./bootstrap.sh --includedir=.. --with-libraries=circular_buffer

However, when I then execute:

./b2

It outputs:

error: wrong library name 'circular_buffer' in the --with-<library> option.

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Bootstrap and b2 are only required for building library binaries. As you said, you will use header-only only, so that's not required.

You can just zip up the boost/ include folders and be happy.

In theory you can prune the set of includes with BCP: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_75_0/tools/bcp/doc/html/index.html

However, in practice I doubt it's worth the effort.