Volodya,

That does indeed seem to do the trick.  Thank you!

I had wondered if it was a problem with my installed version of Python (likely compiled with MSVC) and my usage of MinGW and GCC. (The installed Python 2.5.4 is the binary installation from python.org.)  Using your suggestion, however, it seems to be progressing nicely, and I get the following final message:



EXIT STATUS: 0
====== END OUTPUT ======
**passed** bin\test_embed.test\gcc-mingw-3.4.5\debug\test_embed.test
...updated 47 targets...


I'll move on to attempt the complete build now.

-Kirk


On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:
On Thursday 19 November 2009 23:07:32 rkdelisle@gmail.com wrote:

> I am attempting to build Boost as follows:
>
> I'm working on a Windows XP machine using GCC supplied by MinGW. I've
> downloaded Boost_1_40_0 and successfully built bjam.exe.
>
> For a test, I've switched to
> C:\Boost\boost_1_40_0\libs\python\example\quickstart as instructed here:
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/libs/python/doc/building.html
>
> When I execute

> notice: [python-cfg] ...does not invoke a working interpreter
> notice: [python-cfg] Checking interpreter command "C:\Python25\python"...
> notice: [python-cfg] running command 'DIR /-C /A:S "C:\Python25\python.exe"
> 2>&1'
> notice: [python-cfg] running command '"C:\Python25\python" -c "from sys
> import *;
> print 'version=%d.%d\nplatform=%s\nprefix=%s\nexec_prefix=%s\nexecutable=%s' %
> (version_info[0],version_info[1],platform,prefix,exec_prefix,executable)"
> 2>&1'
> notice: [python-cfg] ...does not invoke a working interpreter

Kirk,

could you try a workaround given in:

       http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1704046/boostpython-windows-7-64-bit

We don't know why this is happening, and why this is happening to *some*
users.

- Volodya
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