Re: boost jam and mingw

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-06 16:20:54

"Andreas Huber" <ahd6974-spamgroupstrap_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Hi Andrew
>
> ANDREW MARLOW, BLOOMBERG/ LONDON OF wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am struggling to get a version of
>> boost jam built for mingw.
>> build.bat gcc-nocygwin produces
>
> Unless you want to do something *really* unusual (like compiling boost 
> under mingw with the MSVC6.0 standard lib ;-)) you should not need to 
> hack anything. Assuming that bjam is in the path and that your mingw 
> distro is under "C:\ProgramFiles\MinGW3.2.0" the following command line 
> from within the boost root should work:
>
> bjam "-sTOOLS=mingw" 
> "-sMINGW_ROOT_DIRECTORY=C:\ProgramFiles\MinGW3.2.0" -a

Andreas, the OP is trying to build bjam, not Boost.

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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