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Subject: Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] Re: [Boost-users] [1.56.0] Beta 1 Available
From: Belcourt, Kenneth (kbelco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-20 17:01:32


On Jul 20, 2014, at 1:58 AM, Rainer Deyke <rainerd_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 18.07.2014 17:01, Marshall Clow wrote:
>> Boost release 1.56.0 beta 1 is now available from SourceForge
>
> I'm experiencing problems cross-compiling Boost 1.56.0b1 (host Linux
> Mint 17 x86_64, target x86_64-w64-mingw32), and I think this is due to
> the build system not picking up my user-config.jam. In Boost 1.55.0, I
> placed my user-config.jam in <boost_root>/tools/build/v2, and it worked.
> In Boost 1.56.0b1 this directory no longer exists, so I tried placing
> my user-config.jam in <boost_root>/tools/build and in
> <boost_root>/tools/build/example where the example user-config.jam is
> located. Neither of these seem to work, i.e. the invoked compiler is the native compiler g++ and not the cross-compiler specified in user-config.jam.

Try putting user-config.jam into tools/build/src and see if it finds it there. If not, you can run b2 —debug-configuration and it will output where it searches for user-config.jam (and other components).

— Noel


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