Re: Problem producing bjam from source in Version 1.30.0

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-23 15:57:00

Viktor.Ransmayr_at_[hidden] writes:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I've downloaded Boost 1.30.0 and tried to produce bjam
> from source using the MinGW environment.
>
> For the record, I'm using
>
> - MinGW-2.0.0-3
> - binutils-2.13.90-2021006-02
> - mingw-runtime-2.4
> - w32api-2.2
>
> Trying to bootstrap from source using
>
> build.bat mingw >> %TMP%\build.log 2>&1
>
> from the DOS cmd-shell on a WinXP-Pro system I receive
> the following errors. ( To save some bandwidth I've stripped
> the file build.log" to the relevant pieces and send it in
> attachment "stripped.build.log" )
>
> Please let me know if I missed something in the documentation.
> - Otherwise tell me how to proceed further, since I'm really
> interested in getting Boost running in my MinGW environment.
>
> build.jam:260: in .clean
> warning: unknown rule .rm
> build.jam:285: in .exe

Very interesting.  It appears that the build script is failing to detect that
you're running on a Windows system.  

It seems to me that the fix is to change line 247 of build.bat from:

    set BOOST_JAM_CC=gcc -DMINGW

to

    set BOOST_JAM_CC=gcc -DMINGW -DNT

However, it also seems to me that this fix is missing from *most* of
the toolsets handled by build.bat, so it's not clear why it works for
anything other than metrowerks, msvc, and vc7.

Note that you don't need to build bjam with mingw to use it later
with mingw.  If you have any of the other toolsets listed above, you
can just build bjam once with that.

HTH,
-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com