[Boost-users] Building boost under mingw: bjam invokes VC7?? (part II: typo cor rected)

From: Brewer, Christopher (cbrewer_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-14 09:23:57

Oops, sorry, Ben and Heinquoi- that was a typo :P
What I *meant* to say was:

Starting bjam with:
        bjam -sTOOLS=mingw install
causes bjam to invoke VC7 instead of gcc. Same thing if quotes are used (as
described in the documentation:
        bjam "-sTOOLS=mingw" install

I ran it again, making sure that I actually used -sTOOLS and not -sTOOL, and
I still see the described behavior.

Again, this is using boost 1.31.0, msys and mingw on Windows 2000, and a
prebuilt version of bjam recently downloaded from sourceforge.

Anyone have any ideas how to make bjam (properly) invoke gcc?

-Chris Brewer

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:ben.hutchings_at_[hidden]]
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8:03 AM
To: boost-users_at_[hidden]
Subject: RE: [Boost-users] building boost under mingw: bjam invokes
VC7??

Christopher Brewer <cbrewer_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I recently attempted to build and install boost 1.31.0 using 
> msys (i.e., mingw).
> I enter the boost directory and start bjam with:
> 
>     bjam -sTOOL=mingw install
> 
> ...and then I see bjam invoking vc7 instead of gcc.
<snip>

The variable is called TOOLS, not TOOL.