How to build boost iostreams with gzip and bzip2 support on Windows

Question

如何使用gzip和bzip2支持构建boost的iostreams库？

Answer 1

I am no expert, but this worked for me.

Option 1 (straight from source)

1. Download source files for zlib and for bzip2 .

2. Extract the downloads to directories, move directories to somewhere you like. I had to avoid C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ as I couldn't get it to work with spaces in the directory name, so I created C:\\Sys\\ and used that.

3. Open a command prompt with elevated privileges (run as administrator), go to your boost directory, eg C:\\Program Files (x86)\\boost\\boost_1_50_0\\ and type b2.exe --with-iostreams -s BZIP2_SOURCE=C:\\Sys\\bzip2-1.0.6 -s ZLIB_SOURCE=C:\\Sys\\zlib-1.2.7

4. Verify that C:\\Program Files (x86)\\boost\\boost_1_50_0\\stage\\lib contains the wanted files, eg libboost_zlib-vc100-*-1_50 and libboost_bzip2-vc100-*-1_50 .

Option 2 (build from source first)

1. As above, download the source files.

2. Open a Visual Studio Command Prompt with elevated privileges (run as administrator)

3. Go to C:\\Sys\\zlib-1.2.7> and type nmake -f win32\\Makefile.msc . This will build zlib .

4. Go to C:\\Sys\\bzip2-1.0.6> and type nmake -f makefile.msc . This will build gzip2 .

5. The command for boost now becomes b2.exe --with-iostreams -s BZIP2_BINARY=libbz2 -s BZIP2_INCLUDE=C:/Sys/bzip2-1.0.6 -s BZIP2_LIBPATH=C:/Sys/bzip2-1.0.6 -s ZLIB_BINARY=zlib -s ZLIB_INCLUDE=C:/Sys/zlib-1.2.7 -s ZLIB_LIBPATH=C:/Sys/zlib-1.2.7