Re: [Boost-users] bjam with mingw

From: Daniel Schlyder (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-07 10:15:24

Brewer, Christopher:
> I had similar problems with bjam under MinGW. By experimentation,
> I discovered that I could make bjam work under MinGW by moving it
> from it's previous location at 'c:/msys/1.0/bin' to
> 'c:/msys/1.0/mingw/bin'.

> FYI, you can find this thread starting at Boost-users Digest,
> Vol 250, Issue 1, and ending (successully :) at Boost-users Digest,
> Vol 253, Issue 1.

Maybe that didn't work because

"Msys will convert POSIX paths that are used as arguments to Win32 paths.
This is done for any executable not in /bin and /usr/bin." [MSYS readme]

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