Re: [Boost-build] having trouble compiling with gcc

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] having trouble compiling with gcc
From: Jürgen Hunold (juergen.hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-13 13:58:51

On Wednesday, 12. October 2011 09:49:55 Robert Ramey wrote:
> Jürgen Hunold wrote:
> > Hi Robert,
> > 
> > On Monday, 10. October 2011 23:53:30 Robert Ramey wrote:
> >> $ bjam -n --dump-tests toolset=gcc
> >> C:/BoostRelease/tools/build/v2/tools\gcc.jam:77: in gcc.init from
> >> module gcc error: toolset gcc initialization:
> >> error: provided command 'g++-4' not found
> > 
> > Please try  bjam -n --debug-configuration toolset=gcc
> > This should provide more diagnostics to post here.
> 
> That seemed to provide some useful information;  Here is what my cygwin
> command line output shows.  MKS korn shell shows the same:

> C:/BoostRelease/tools/build/v2/tools\gcc.jam:77: in gcc.init from module
> gcc error: toolset gcc initialization:
> error: provided command 'g++' not found
> error: initialized from C:\BoostRelease\tools/build/v2\user-config.jam:46

> So I the the g++ executable doesn't seem to be found under bjam while under
> the shell it's available via the $PATH

I would bet that Boost.Build is not using the shell the way you think it does 
;-))

> The relevant part of my user_config.jam is:
> 
> # Configure specific gcc version, giving alternative name to use.
> # using gcc : 3.2 : g++-3.2 ;
> using gcc : : g++ :
>     <linkflags>-Wl,--enable-auto-import
>     <linkflags>-Wl,--enable-stdcall-fixup
> ;
> 
> the site_config.jam is the default from the release version.

site_config.jam is irre

> I've also tried variations of toolset=g++, toolset=g++-4, etc without any
> success.
> I"ve also tried setting the user_config to various things like
> 
> using gcc: 4.5.3 : g++4 ;
> using gcc: 4.5.3 : g++ ;
> 
> etc.
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.

As I wrote in my previous email:

> The best solution (especially on windows) is just to provide the binary
> including the full path in unix syntax (with quotes if the path contains
> spaces)
> 
>  using gcc : : "c:/whatever/bin/g++-4" : ... ;

I use:

using gcc : 4.6 : F:/programme/mingw-4.6.2-32/bin/g++

for mingw-w64 32-bit compiler.

Yours,

Jürgen
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