[Boost-users] Re: compiling boost with mingw in winxp

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-21 09:12:23

Rene Rivera <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> I'm at a loss also, I just tried this:
>>     bjam -sTOOLS=mingw -sMINGW_ROOT_DIRECTORY=c:\MinGW
>> And it works fine. Although I'm using MinGW 2. I'll try with the
>> latest soon...
>
> OK. Tried again with MinGW-3.1, and still no problems. Question; What
> is the location of your MinGW installation? And a request; Could you
> run bjam with the -d+2 option? Perhaps that will give me a clue as to
> what may be going on.

Actually, try it with -d+4

The spawn problem has to do with the way the build tool kicks off
each build command.  That much I'm sure of.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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