trying to build Boost MPI, but the lib files are not created. What's going on?
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I am trying to run a program with Boost MPI, but the thing is I don't have the .lib. So I try to create one by following the instruction at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/doc/html/mpi/getting_started.html#mpi.config
The instruction says "For many users using LAM/MPI, MPICH, or OpenMPI, configuration is almost automatic", I got myself OpenMPI in C:\, but I didn't do anything more with it. Do we need to do anything with it?
Beside that, another statement from the instruction: "If you don't already have a file user-config.jam in your home directory, copy tools/build/v2/user-config.jam there." Well, I simply do what it says. I got myself "user-config.jam" in C:\boost_1_43_0 along with "using mpi ;" into the file.
Next, this is what I've done: bjam --with-mpi
C:\boost_1_43_0>bjam --with-mpi
WARNING: No python installation configured and autoconfiguration
failed. See http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/building.html
for configuration instructions or pass --without-python to
suppress this message and silently skip all Boost.Python targets
Building the Boost C++ Libraries.
warning: skipping optional Message Passing Interface (MPI) library.
note: to enable MPI support, add "using mpi ;" to user-config.jam.
note: to suppress this message, pass "--without-mpi" to bjam.
note: otherwise, you can safely ignore this message.
warning: Unable to construct ./stage-unversioned
warning: Unable to construct ./stage-unversioned
Component configuration:
- date_time : not building
- filesystem : not building
- graph : not building
- graph_parallel : not building
- iostreams : not building
- math : not building
- mpi : building
- program_options : not building
- python : not building
- random : not building
- regex : not building
- serialization : not building
- signals : not building
- system : not building
- test : not building
- thread : not building
- wave : not building
...found 1 target...
The Boost C++ Libraries were successfully built!
The following directory should be added to compiler include paths:
C:\boost_1_43_0
The following directory should be added to linker library paths:
C:\boost_1_43_0\stage\lib
C:\boost_1_43_0>
I see that there are many libs in C:\boost_1_43_0\stage\lib, but I see no trace of libboost_mpi-vc100-mt-1_43.lib or libboost_mpi-vc100-mt-gd-1_43.lib at all. These are the libraries required for linking in mpi applications.
What could possibly gone wrong when libraries are not being built?
