Re: Newbie question about compiling 0.3.7 with Boost

Posted by Luigi Ballabio-2 on
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Newbie-question-about-compiling-0-3-7-with-Boost-tp3423p3425.html

On 2004.11.30 16:51, Harold Teichman wrote:
> 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.

Harold,
        25 minutes is an awful lot of time. It's more like a couple of  
minutes on my box. What kind of machine are you using?
Secondly: when configure aborts, you should have a config.log file in the  
same directory with more details about the failure. May you have a look at  
it and see why the check fails? It might give you hints about missing  
include paths and such.

> Can anyone suggest a simple cookbook procedure (what env settings to use,
> basic commands to use) for installing (the basics of) Boost and QuantLib?

As for Boost, the directions at  
<http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started.html>
should work.

As for QuantLib under Cygwin, there was a related thread on this mailing  
list a while ago. Let me look for it...  here it is:
<http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=5233521&forum_id=4299>

Let me know if this helps.

Later,
        Luigi

P.S. Release 0.3.8 (out shortly) will include support for Dev-C++ and  
MinGW, which might be a viable alternative to Cygwin on Windows systems.