[Boost-users] Re: Building with Mingw under XP

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-22 00:19:13

Ken Perry wrote:
> I am sorry I was not clearer with my first question.  I have tryed the 
> stage option and it didn't work.  The problem is I can't seem to get any 
> of the command line variables like --includedir=c:\mydir/myinclude to 
> work.  I ahve also tryed stage to put them all in one directory  but I 
> am doing that wrong to it seems. Accordign to the install documentation 
> it defaults to install it to 
> 
> c:\boost lib and include.
> 
> 
> So I tryed just bjam --install -sTOOLS=MINGW and it didn't install them 
> in the default areas. 

That should be:

        bjam -sTOOLS=mingw install

* Case matters for the TOOLS value.
* "install" is not an option, but a target. And must be placed at the 
end to not be confused as an option.

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