Building Boost

NOTE This is not necessary when building mongo versions 2.1.1 or later.

MongoDB uses the [www.boost.org] C++ libraries.

Windows

See also the prebuilt libraries page.

By default c:\boost\ is checked for the boost files. Include files should be under \boost\boost, and libraries in \boost\lib.

First download the boost source. Then use the 7 Zip utility to extra the files. Place the extracted files in C:\boost.

Then we will compile the required libraries.

See buildscripts/buildboost.bat and buildscripts/buildboost64.bat for some helpers.

> rem set PATH for compiler:
> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat"
>
> rem build the bjam make tool:
> cd \boost\tools\jam\src\
> build.bat
>
> cd \boost
> tools\jam\src\bin.ntx86\bjam --help
> rem see also mongo/buildscripts/buildboost*.bat
> rem build DEBUG libraries:
> tools\jam\src\bin.ntx86\bjam variant=debug threading=multi --with-program_options --with-filesystem --with-date_time --with-thread
> mkdir lib
> move stage\lib\* lib\

Linux

It's common with linux to install boost via a package manager – see the Building for Linux page for specifics.

However one might also want to build from boost.org sources in some cases, for example to use a newer version of boost, to generate static libraries, etc.

The following – far from comprehensive, rather an example – shows manually building of boost libraries on Linux.

$ sudo ./bootstrap.sh

$ ./b2 --help

$ # now build it
$ ./b2
$ #or
$ ./b2 --with-program_options --with-filesystem --with-date_time --with-thread

$ sudo ./b2 install 

Troubleshooting

Unresolved external get_system_category() when linking MongoDB
Try defining BOOST_SYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED in the MongoDB SConstruct file.