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

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-15 14:15:57

"Heinquoi" <heinquoi1_at_[hidden]> writes:

> It seems to me, you read
> http://www.boost.org\tools\build\v1\mingw-tools.html, that the path of mingw
> is not defined at the absense of parameter. You could define it that: 
> Bjam -sMINGW_ROOT_DIRECTORY=c:\your_path_to_mingw -sTOOLS=mingw install
> Or if your path has a space in its name ( but i think is not possible for
> the good work of mingw, i am not sure.)
> Bjam "-sMINGW_ROOT_DIRECTORY=c:\your_path_to_mingw -sTOOLS=mingw" install

That's all irrelevant to the problem, which I hope is solved by now.
Forgetting to set MINGW_ROOT_DIRECTORY can never cause bjam to invoke
vc7 instead of mingw.

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Dave Abrahams
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