building Boost using Jam

From: jd.schmidt_at_[hidden]
Date: 2002-05-09 12:20:26

Hi, I'm new to using Boost.  I've been trying to build Boost using Jam on Windows 2000.  My compiler is MSVC6 SP5.  As the documentation (www.boost.org/tools/build/index.html) says, I went to my Boost root directory (C:\boost_1_27_0 for me) and used the command

jam -sBOOST_ROOT=. -sTOOLS="msvc"

and I get the message:

'jam' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file

OK, fine, jam.exe is in C:\boost_1_27_0\boost-build; that's just where I downloaded it to.  I've tried to run Jam from the boost-build directory, but I get the message:

Jamfile:  No such file or directory
...found 8 targets...

This doesn't seem very straightforward.  What do I need to do here so that I can build Boost?

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