build boost_1_48 on ubuntu and windows

onega@ub-laptop:~$ tar xvjf Downloads/boost_1_48_0.tar.bz2

onega@ub-laptop:~/boost_1_48_0$ du -sh

419M

onega@ub-laptop:~/boost_1_48_0$./bootstrap.sh

onega@ub-laptop:~/boost_1_48_0$ time./b2 variant=release link=static runtime-link=shared threading=multi

...

gcc.archivebin.v2/libs/filesystem/build/gcc-4.6.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/libboost_filesystem.a

common.copystage/lib/libboost_filesystem.a

...failed updating 28 targets...

...skipped 3 targets...

...updated 503 targets...

real 7m31.343s

user 7m0.362s

sys 0m22.629s

onega@ub-laptop:~/boost_1_48_0$ sudo ./b2 install

remove boost_1_44_0 libraries from/usr/local/lib

onega@ub-laptop:~/boost_1_48_0$ sudo -s

root@ub-laptop:~/boost_1_48_0# find /usr/local/lib -name "*44*" | xargs rm

root@ub-laptop:~/boost_1_48_0# su onega

onega@ub-laptop:~/boost_1_48_0$ du -sh

565M

Build boost_1_48_0.tar.bz2 on Windows XP via VC++ 2008

download timeit.exe from Windows 2003 Resource Kit

download du.exe from sysinternals

download icu4c-4_4_2-src.tgz and build it. Note: icu4c-4_6_1-src.tgz and icu4c-4_8_1_1-src.tgz only provides VC++ 2010 project files.

G:\src\icu4c-4_4_2-src>c:\tools\timeit.exe devenv icu\source\allinone\allinone.sln /Build "Debug|Win32"


Version Number:   Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600)
Exit Time:        1:10 pm, Saturday, November 26 2011
Elapsed Time:     0:05:52.397
Process Time:     0:00:13.156
System Calls:     14302984
Context Switches: 5671218
Page Faults:      6210036
Bytes Read:       4090425485
Bytes Written:    1063078424
Bytes Other:      54560737


G:\src\icu4c-4_4_2-src>c:\tools\timeit.exe devenv icu\source\allinone\allinone.sln /Build "Release|Win32"


Version Number:   Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600)
Exit Time:        1:14 pm, Saturday, November 26 2011
Elapsed Time:     0:03:36.005
Process Time:     0:00:09.062
System Calls:     9138612
Context Switches: 2112111
Page Faults:      4133377
Bytes Read:       3267500813
Bytes Written:    543078480
Bytes Other:      31802906

download boost-log-1.0.zip and extract into boost_1_48 source folder

start build:

call "%VS90COMNTOOLS%/../../vc/bin/vcvars32.bat"
c:\tools\sysinternals\du.exe g:\src\boost_1_48_0 >> buildtime.txt
cd /d G:\src\boost_1_48_0
@echo Update G:\src\boost_1_48_0/tools/build/v2/user-config.jam
call bootstrap.bat


echo "build boost_1_48_0 start" >> buildtime.txt
time /t  >> buildtime.txt
c:\tools\timeit.exe b2.exe --without-log --toolset=msvc stage --build-type=complete -sBZIP2_SOURCE=D:\opensource\bzip2-1.0.5 -sZLIB_SOURCE=D:\opensource\zlib-1.2.5 -sICU_PATH=G:\src\icu4c-4_4_2-src\icu >> msvc90.log


time /t  >> buildtime.txt
b2 --show-libraries >> buildtime.txt
c:\tools\timeit.exe b2.exe --with-log --toolset=msvc stage --build-type=complete define=BOOST_FILESYSTEM_VERSION=2 define=BOOST_ASIO_DISABLE_STD_ARRAY
time /t  >> buildtime.txt
c:\tools\sysinternals\du.exe g:\src\boost_1_48_0 >> buildtime.txt
echo "build finished" >> buildtime.txt

It takes 65minutes building boost without boost.log. It takes 18 minutes building boost.log.

if b2.exe failed to check ICU:

- has_icu builds           : no

check log file G:\src\boost_1_48_0\bin.v2\config.log

Use the following command to check icu:

b2.exe --with-regex --toolset=msvc stage --build-type=complete -sBZIP2_SOURCE=D:\opensource\bzip2-1.0.5 -sZLIB_SOURCE=D:\opensource\zlib-1.2.5 -sICU_PATH=G:\src\icu4c-4_4_2-src\icu -n