heres what i do to build mingW since i am using dev-cpp compiler. <br><br>step 1: edit user-config.jam (this will tell where the compiler is).<br><br>gcc : : "C:/Dev-Cpp/bin/gcc"<br><br>step 2: erase the "install" ... its more like bjam "--toolset=gcc" "--build-dir=C:\install-boost" <br><br>and thats it.... <br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/18/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ken Klose</b> <<a href="mailto:ken.klose@future-skies.com">ken.klose@future-skies.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> PS. I've tried the Jamfile.v2.diff that Vladimir Prus attached to a post<br>entitled "Re: [1.34.0] building on cygwin fails out of the box".<br><br>"Ken Klose" <<a href="mailto:ken.klose@future-skies.com"> ken.klose@future-skies.com</a>> wrote in message<br>news:f2k8pk$ohp$1@sea.gmane.org...<br>> When I built boost 1.33.1 with GCC 3.4.5 on WinXP I got 274 files in the<br>> \boost\lib directory consisting of both DLLs and .lib files. When I built <br>> boost 1.34 (following the new getting started directions) I only got 154<br>> files in \boost\lib none were DLL or LIB, they were all .a files.<br>><br>> Interestingly when the 1.34.0 build starts I get "Unable to construct <br>> ./install-unversioned" messages that I don't get in the 1.33.1 build:<br>> ...found 1 target...<br>><br>> C:\src\c++\boost_1_34_0>bjam --toolset=gcc --prefix=C:\Boost1.34.0 install<br>> Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled.<br>> Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information<br>> (don't panic: this is a strictly optional feature).<br>> warning: Unable to construct ./install-unversioned <br>> warning: Unable to construct ./install-unversioned<br>> warning: Unable to construct ./install-unversioned<br>><br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> Ken<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________ <br>Boost-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Boost-users@lists.boost.org">Boost-users@lists.boost.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users">http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users </a><br></blockquote></div><br>