Re: [Boost-users] Building for cygwin on Windows?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-31 21:27:42

on Sat Mar 31 2007, "John Harper" <john-a-harper-AT-hotmail.com> wrote:

> I can't get the boost libraries to build correctly using Cygwin and GCC on 
> Windows XP. Boost seems determined to build for some kind of native Windows 
> environment. I'm trying:
>
> bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc" "--prefix=/usr/local"
>
> and it complains "wide i/o not supported on this platform". If I omit 
> --prefix it puts the libraries in the Windows file system under C:\Boost, 
> but even if I copy them to somewhere under cygwin and point GCC at them, it 
> still doesn't find them.
>
> SUrely I'm not the first person to want to do this? What is the magic 
> formula?

Are you using a windows build of bjam or a cygwin build?  You'll need
the latter.

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