How to build boost iostreams with gzip and bzip2 support on Windows

How do I build boost's iostreams library with gzip and bzip2 support?

I am no expert, but this worked for me.

Option 1 (straight from source)

Download source files for zlib and for bzip2.
Extract the downloads to directories, move directories to somewhere you like. I had to avoid C:\Program Files (x86)\ as I couldn't get it to work with spaces in the directory name, so I created C:\Sys\ and used that.
Open a command prompt with elevated privileges (run as administrator), go to your boost directory, e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\boost\boost_1_50_0\ and type b2.exe --with-iostreams -s BZIP2_SOURCE=C:\Sys\bzip2-1.0.6 -s ZLIB_SOURCE=C:\Sys\zlib-1.2.7
Verify that C:\Program Files (x86)\boost\boost_1_50_0\stage\lib contains the wanted files, e.g. libboost_zlib-vc100-*-1_50 and libboost_bzip2-vc100-*-1_50.

Option 2 (build from source first)

As above, download the source files.
Open a Visual Studio Command Prompt with elevated privileges (run as administrator)
Go to C:\Sys\zlib-1.2.7> and type nmake -f win32\Makefile.msc. This will build zlib.
Go to C:\Sys\bzip2-1.0.6> and type nmake -f makefile.msc. This will build gzip2.
The command for boost now becomes b2.exe --with-iostreams -s BZIP2_BINARY=libbz2 -s BZIP2_INCLUDE=C:/Sys/bzip2-1.0.6 -s BZIP2_LIBPATH=C:/Sys/bzip2-1.0.6 -s ZLIB_BINARY=zlib -s ZLIB_INCLUDE=C:/Sys/zlib-1.2.7 -s ZLIB_LIBPATH=C:/Sys/zlib-1.2.7

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7282645/how-to-build-boost-iostreams-with-gzip-and-bzip2-support-on-windows

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