Re: [Boost-build] cygwin - mingw confusion

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] cygwin - mingw confusion
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-28 12:23:44

Vladimir Prus <vladimir <at> codesourcery.com> writes:

> I plan to use target-os for the purpose. E.g.
> 
>     toolset=gcc target-os=windows
> 
> will select mingw, and
> 
>     target=gcc target-os=cygwin
> 
> will select cygwin (which is in fact a totally separate operating system).

So if I want to test both under cygwin and mingw can I do this?

  bjam --dump-tests --toolset=gcc-4 target-os=cygwin,mingw

And will other compilers still work on the same command line?

  bjam --dump-tests --toolset=gcc-4,msvc-9.0express target-os=cygwin,mingw

--Beman