I do not have Visual Studio. I only have mingw. Can you make boost-build with mingw?

Related note:

I'm trying to build asio(and it says it needs boost-build), and a few years ago, you could build asio with mingw.

I'm pretty desperate wanting to build asio and I'd be willing to paypal someone who wants to step me through it 30$ or so. Whoever wants to do this, email me your preferred Instant Messenger.

From: Steven Watanabe <watanabesj@gmail.com>
To: Boost.Build developer's and user's list <boost-build@lists.boost.org>
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 10:43 AM
Subject: Re: [Boost-build] 2 Problems with bootstrap.bat

On 03/16/2012 02:09 PM, Jim Sager wrote:
> This page: http://www.boost.org/doc/display_build.php/boost-build/boost-build/doc/html/bbv2/installation.html
> Says to get boost.build from the official website.
>
> However on the Download, there is no bootstrap.bat available.

The download from sourceforge is very out of date
and is best ignored.

> I tried the Nightly Build, and it is there, but gives me the following error:
>
>
> C:\boost-build>bootstrap
> Bootstrapping the build engine
> 'cl' is not recognized as an internal
> or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> Is there just a temporary mistake on the boost.build site maybe?
>

It works for me. Try building from the Visual Studio
Command Prompt. Also check bootstrap.log (in the
parent directory, oops) to see if there's any more
information about the error.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe
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