Re: [Boost-build] Boost with Eclipse

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Boost with Eclipse
From: Jürgen Hunold (juergen.hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-21 12:30:12

Hi Oliver,

On Monday, 21. March 2011 17:02:36 Oliver Sampson wrote:
 Now that the MinGW files can be downloaded from within Eclipse, the
> default paths for finding MinGW don't apply to the scripts included with
> the boost libraries.

This ist Step 3.2: Add the MinGW bin folder to the PATH.
Should be enough.
 
> I'm not the first person to notice this. This fine fellow has written a
> nice blog entry about how to modify the bootstrap and the build.bat
> files to get the boost libraries to build for MinGW under windows from
> the Eclipse install:
> 
> http://theseekersquill.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/howto-boost-mingw/
> 
> After following his tips (and finding the new locations for the
> build.bat file), I'm now getting this error: "This program can’t start
> because mspdb100.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the
> program to fix this problem."

this is a msvc-10 dll. Seems you build bjam with msvc.

> Any tips on getting the boost libraries to build to use the MinGW that
> is downloaded via Eclipse?

Patching build.bat is unnessary. You should be able to just invoke  ".
\build.bat gcc" and even "bootstrap.bat gcc" from the main directory.

And another bug is "bjam --toolset=gcc" in 3.5, this should simply be "bjam 
gcc" (or "bjam toolset=gcc").

For further diagnostic please state the exact boost version and provide more 
compiler output next time.

Yours,

Jürgen
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