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

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] What needs fixing for MinGW
From: Nogradi, Chris (Chris.Nogradi_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-01 15:16:39

> > For quite a while, we had users complaining about Boost.Build operation in
> > Windows with MinGW.

> is cygwin part of this topic?

I second the vote for cygwin to get fixed also as part of this.  I should be able to just use:

using gcc ;

but for some reason it gets 'Access is denied' errors.

$ bjam.exe -a gcc
Access is denied.
Access is denied.
Access is denied.
Access is denied.
...found 10 targets...
...updating 4 targets...
common.mkdir ..\t\bin\gcc
common.mkdir ..\t\bin\gcc\debug
gcc.compile.c ..\t\bin\gcc\debug\main.o
Access is denied.

    "g++" -x c -O0 -fno-inline -Wall -g     -c -o "..\t\bin\gcc\debug\main.o" "..\t\main.c"

...failed gcc.compile.c ..\t\bin\gcc\debug\main.o...
...skipped <p..\t\bin\gcc\debug>main.exe for lack of <p..\t\bin\gcc\debug>main.o...
...failed updating 1 target...
...skipped 1 target...
...updated 2 targets...

$ which g++
/usr/bin/g++

If I explicitly add the path of gcc to the using statement then compiles work but linking fails because of the symlinks.

Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: boost-build-bounces_at_[hidden] [mailto:boost-build-
> bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Frédéric Bron
> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 2:05 PM
> To: Boost.Build developer's and user's list
> Subject: Re: [Boost-build] What needs fixing for MinGW
>
> > For quite a while, we had users complaining about Boost.Build
> operation in
> > Windows with MinGW.
>
> Hi,
>
> is cygwin part of this topic?
> because cygwin is broken for a long time now because it is considered
> that cygwin=windows but it should be cygwin=posix. In particular,
> filesystem does not work well. With V2 it was possible to manually
> configure with macro definitions but not with V3 (POSIX_PATH,
> POSIX_API).
> But all this is not mingw so I fair it is not in the scope of your
> message.
>
> Frédéric
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