What is boost log, how to get it and how to build it

This is the method I followed to install Boost.Log in my Linux box. One important note before you build and install Boost libraries: Make sure you have installed a threading library like pthreads. Most package managers should have them.

Here are the build steps:

If you have installed Boost already from source, then its fine continue to next step. Otherwise download it from here (preferably the latest version (v1.46). I used v1.45). Extract the boost libraries at say: /opt. We can build the libraries along with Boost.Log.

• Download Boost.Log from Sourceforge.
• Extract the Boost.Log source archive in a folder – say /opt. Copy the log folder in: /opt/boost-log-1.0/boost to your boost source directory /opt/Boost_1_45_0/boost (assuming that you have extracted it in /opt).
• Copy the log folder in: /opt/boost-log-1.0/libs to your boost libs directory /opt/Boost_1_45_0/libs (assuming that you have extracted it in /opt). If you haven’t installed other Boost libraries, then follow these steps:
  • cd /opt/Boost_1_45_0
  • .bootstrap.sh --show-libraries — this will list all the libraries that will be built and installed. You should see log listed as part of it.
  • .bootstrap.sh --with-libraries=all --prefix=/usr/local --includedir=/usr/local/include --libdir=/usr/local/lib
  • ./bjam install

Finally make sure $LD_LIBRARY_PATH has /usr/local/lib (the path specified in bjam to install the built libraries) as part of it. If it is not edit your ~/.bashrc and add the following:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH