Building Boost 32/64 on Windows

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Building boost x64 "release only"

Ready-made boost x64 binary libs are not available from boost project. To build boost binary libs with regex having unicode support we need ICU libs.

Getting ICU's binary libraries

  • Building boost x64 binaries WITH UNICODE REGEX SUPPORT requires icu x64 binaries which we have to make or get
  • NB building icu "release only" can be done from the command line with sdk only
  • Building icu debug version can be done from command line but requires a path to visual studio's bscmake (express will do)

From ICU Project (Release Only/No Debug)

Here we get "release only" binaries from icu at http://site.icu-project.org/download 

http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.6/icu4c-4_6-Win64-msvc10.zip

and extract to 

F:\icu4c-4_6-Win64-msvc10

check they are at the right level 

dir F:\icu4c-4_6-Win64-msvc10\icu

Define ICU Location

set ICU64=F:\icu4c-4_6-Win64-msvc10\icu
rem set ICU64=F:\icu4c-4_6_1-src\icu
dir %ICU64%

Get Boost Source

To unzip boost files fast get 7-Zip because Windows is intolerably slow to unzip the large number of files in Boost. 

http://www.7-zip.org/download.html

Get boost source and open in 7-Zip's File Manager "FM" 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.46.1/boost_1_46_1.7z/download

Extract to F:\ so that subfolder isnt doubled up as f:\exodus_1_46_1\exodus_1_46_1\ 

f:\boost_1_46_1

or just get boost zip but Windows unzips Boost intolerably slowly 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.46.1/boost_1_46_1.zip/download

Build Boost Builder

Install Windows SDK if you have not already done so.

Get into a SDK command line and move into the boost source folder to build the boost builder "bjam" 

>>>Windows SDK 7.1 Command Prompt
f:
cd \boost_1_46_1

rem NOTE the boost builder "bjam" MUST be built in x86 mode!!!
setenv /x86 /Release

bootstrap

Check if Boost builds with ICU

First build the regex library only to check that icu is being used 

setenv /x64 /Release
bjam variant=release --toolset=msvc-10.0 architecture=x86 address-model=64 -sICU_PATH=%ICU64% --with-regex stage --stagedir=stage64 -j2 -a

If it says HAS_ICU=NO then do the following work otherwise skip to final section and build all five boost binary libraries needed by Exodus

Work-around for "HAS_ICU BUILDS: NO"

bjam should not use the debug libraries while building regex so probably we can just use the release versions as debug to get around the icu detection! 

cd icu\lib64
copy icuin.lib icuind.lib
copy icuuc.lib icuucd.lib

If the work-around doesnt work!

A boost build bug that tests for existence of *debug* version of ICU even when building release only version of boost. config.log will show you all the attempted linking including bin/bin64 lib/lib64 issues. also includes list of libraries in a @file 

notepad bin\v2\config.log
notepad bin.v2\libs\regex\build\msvc-10.0\debug\address-model-64\architecture-x86\threading-multi\has_icu.exe.rsp

LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'icuind.lib'

maybe your ICU_PATH IS WRONG

Build Boost with ICU

setenv /x64 /Release
bjam variant=release --toolset=msvc-10.0 architecture=x86 address-model=64 -sICU_PATH=%ICU64% --with-date_time --with-filesystem --with-regex --with-system --with-thread stage --stagedir=stage64 -j2 -a
dir stage64\lib

Complete Build of Boost 32/64/Debug/Release

If you have acquired or built a complete set of ICU 32/64/release/debug libraries then you can build the same for boost and therefore can build Exodus in any configuration or platform.

Getting ICU's binary libraries

  • Building boost x64 binaries WITH UNICODE REGEX SUPPORT requires icu x64 binaries which we have to make or get
  • NB building icu "release only" can be done from the command line with sdk only
  • Building icu debug version can be done from command line but requires a path to visual studio's bscmake (express will do)

Built from Source

Building ICU 32/64 on Windows

Ready made from Exodus Project (x86/x64/Release/Debug)

http://exodusdb.googlecode.com/files/icu461-vc100-x86x64-rd.zip

You will also need the include/headers from: Building_ICU_32/64_on_Windows#Get_ICU_Source

Position the lib and lib64 folder in the \icu include/header folder next to the include folder

Complete Build

First setup boost:

  1. Building_Boost_32/64_on_Windows#Get_Boost_Source
  2. Building_Boost_32/64_on_Windows#Build_Boost_Builder

CHECK THAT IT SAYS "HAS_ICU BUILDS : YES" in the following and troubleshoot using the procedure from the previous section. 

set ICU32=f:\icu4c-4_6_1-src\icu
set ICU64=f:\icu4c-4_6_1-src\icu

setenv /x64
bjam --toolset=msvc-10.0 architecture=x86 address-model=64 -sICU_PATH=%ICU64% --with-date_time --with-filesystem --with-regex --with-system --with-thread stage --stagedir=stage64 -j2 -a
dir stage64\lib

setenv /x86
bjam --toolset=msvc-10.0 architecture=x86 address-model=64 -sICU_PATH=%ICU32% --with-date_time --with-filesystem --with-regex --with-system --with-thread stage --stagedir=stage32 -j2 -a
dir stage32\lib
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