Re: [Boost-build] What needs fixing for MinGW

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] What needs fixing for MinGW
From: Brian Schrom (brian.schrom_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-01 09:46:29

On 05/01/2012 05:33 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Folks,
>
> For quite a while, we had users complaining about Boost.Build operation in Windows with MinGW.
> In particular, bootstrap.bat puts "using mingw ;" into project-config.jam, which does not work
> very well. Is that the only thing that needs fixing, or there are other MinGW issues, either
> in native or cross configuration?
>
Only as a point of reference, I use the git bash
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ and have had no problems building
1.49.  I think this uses mingw/msys as the underlying platform.