Re: [jamboost] Re: boost jam and mingw

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-06 16:36:37

David Abrahams wrote:
> "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.

But in a strange way his comments still apply. There is a 'mingw' 
toolset for building bjam. I don't have MinGW installed right now, but 
the following was working last I checked:

set BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT=C:\MinGW
cd boost-root/tools/build/jam_src
build mingw

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