Newbie question about compiling 0.3.7 with Boost

Posted by Harold Teichman on
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Newbie-question-about-compiling-0-3-7-with-Boost-tp3423.html

 All,

I have been wrestling with compiling/installing 0.3.7 for the better part of two days.  The "configure" script runs for about 25 minutes with everything looking ok, and then dies, declaring that it can't find the Boost components.  I previously installed the latest Boost version according to their instructions in a directory $HOME/boost_1_32_0.  I am using Cygwin (to emulate Linux) under Windows XT with gcc 3.3.3 (Cygwin special).  I have played with various environment settings, and experimented with carving up the huge "configure" script, to no avail so far.

I am completely new to Boost and QuantLib.  My immediate goal is to play around with basic code using the QuantLib classes, in order to familiarize myself with them.  So I don't need any special performance or threading or whatever doo-dah options that might be provided.

Can anyone suggest a simple cookbook procedure (what env settings to use, basic commands to use) for installing (the basics of) Boost and QuantLib?  (The directions, unless I'm missing something, don't work for me.) If using an earlier version than 0.3.7 would be considerably easier, that would be ok too.  If there's something inherently fishy about Cygwin, I can switch to a Sun Solaris 9 environment with gcc.

Any suggestions here would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Harold Teichman
Aladdin Capital