Re: [boost] [build] bootstrap.sh is still broken

Subject: Re: [boost] [build] bootstrap.sh is still broken
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-21 19:47:14

On 21 Oct 2013 at 21:46, Vladimir Prus wrote:

> Well, I do have a Windows box, but last time I checked, there was a dozen of flavours
> of MinGW. Stephan, can you point at whatever packages needs to be downloaded to
> try?

Be aware that I found any Mingw after the one based on GCC 4.6.4 is 
broken with Boost in various unhelpful ways (e.g. generating 
assembler ops its assembler won't accept). In fact, of course, Mingw 
with GCC 4.6 was also broken (e.g. <atomic> does not implement 
actually atomic operations), but it had been around long enough 
people had patched for it.

Mingw-w64 is absolutely fine though, and I very strongly recommend 
its use over traditional Mingw. Mingw-w64 was so trouble free that it 
just worked for me first time, which was quite a novel experience.

Niall

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