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

Question

So I heard good things about boost log. This claims its existence:

http://boost-log.sourceforge.net/libs/log/doc/html/index.html

This is the tutorial:

Answer 1

After lots of searching and testing this what I found out.

• Download desired Boost (I tested it on stable release 1.51)

• Checkout boost-log from here and copy /boost/log and /libs/log to /boost/log and /libs

• Make sure you have a supported compiler (my problem was that!. It worked with gcc 4.1.7)

• Run

  ./bootstrap.sh --with-libraries=all --prefix=
  

  and

  ./b2 address-model=32
  

If everything goes according to plan, a directory /stage/libs will be created with the compiled libraries (including libboost_log.so)

Notes:

• I'm not sure why but prefix didn't work. I was expecting to see the libraries built there.

• Use b2 not bjam.

• No need to alter Jamfile in .

• I got a bunch of warnings but no when building log.

I hope it helps somebody.