Re: [Boost-build] building boost in cygwin using msvc

From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-25 08:01:01

Andrej van der Zee wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to build Boost in Cygwin, but with toolset
> msvc. What is the right way to do this? I tried the
> following sequence:
> 
> 1) build bjam using build.sh in tools/jam/src
> 2) 'configure --with-toolset=msvc'
> (tools/jam/src/bin.cygwinx86/bjam is being used)
> 3) run 'make'

Don't use configure, instead, run the bjam directly,
using the command found in 'Makefile' as reference and try
adding 'threadapi=win32' to the command line. 

> This is not what I want. I want the comfort of Linux,

Well, the current cmd.exe is not that bad ;-)

- Volodya