Boost libraries - build only what I need

Question

I downloaded the Boost libraries and now I want to build only a few of the libraries. What would be the right command for this? Apparently the built-type=complete option giv

Answer 1

The BCP utility is a tool for extracting subsets of Boost. It's useful for Boost authors who want to distribute their library separately from Boost, and for Boost users who want to distribute a subset of Boost with their application.

The current version of Boost (1.50.0) uses Boost.Build. The new workflow for building BCP is as follows:

From the root Boost directory, type:

bootstrap.bat

Then, once Boost.Build has been built, type:

b2 tools/bcp

To extract, for example interprocess only, you could use:

$ mkdir /tmp/interprocess #bcp needs this
$ bcp interprocess /tmp/interprocess

This copies interprocess and its dependencies to /tmp/interprocess.