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

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] What needs fixing for MinGW
From: François Jacques (francois.jacques_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-05-02 07:44:20

Hello Paul,

Building with Microsoft compilers works well, but you need to know the magic invocation. It's either msvc (but that's for the OLD release, 6 or 7 - don't remember) or vc8, vc9, vc10 and vc11.

The workflow becomes (vc10):

.Open the command prompt with vc environment set (or invoke the vcvars batch files from a "virgin" prompt)
.build.bat vc10

Should work...

Le 2012-05-01 à 09:40, Paul a écrit :
> 
> I tried to compile boost on windows a while back, and had a horrible
> time of it. As I recall, compiling bjam needed specifying mingw on the
> command line, as it failed to detect my installed mingw, and defaulted
> to the MSVC compiler, which it couldn't find.