Re: [Boost-testing] Getting started in boost - cannot run bootstrap.cmd

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] Getting started in boost - cannot run bootstrap.cmd
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-04-23 13:49:54

AMDG

This is the wrong list.  Try boost-users.

On 04/22/2013 06:03 PM, jasonm wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> Now - when I try and run the following: ( Boost TUtorial
> <http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/doc/html/bbv2/installation.html>  )
> bootstrap.cmd on a windows machine I get the following in the log file:
> 
> ### "Could not find a suitable toolset."
> <snip>
> 
> A friend said for me to pass gcc in as an argument to bootstrap.cmd (in
> command line: bootstrap.cmd gcc)
> 
> Which then gave the following to the log file:
> ###
> ### Using 'gcc' toolset.
> ###
> 
> C:\cygwin\boost_1_53_0\tools\build\v2\engine>if exist bootstrap rd /S /Q
> bootstrap 
> 
> C:\cygwin\boost_1_53_0\tools\build\v2\engine>md bootstrap 
> 
> C:\cygwin\boost_1_53_0\tools\build\v2\engine>gcc -DNT -o bootstrap\jam0.exe 
> command.c compile.c constants.c debug.c execnt.c filent.c function.c glob.c
> hash.c hdrmacro.c headers.c jam.c jambase.c jamgram.c lists.c make.c make1.c
> object.c option.c output.c parse.c pathunix.c regexp.c rules.c scan.c
> search.c subst.c timestamp.c variable.c modules.c strings.c filesys.c
> builtins.c md5.c pwd.c class.c w32_getreg.c native.c modules/set.c
> modules/path.c modules/regex.c modules/property-set.c modules/sequence.c
> modules/order.c 
> 

So, what's the problem?

> 
> Please any help would be fantastic. I feel like I am banging my head against
> a wall.
> 

You could try using bootstrap.sh for cygwin.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe