Re: [Boost-users] how does one compile boost for MinGW?

From: Bijan (Bijan.Nazem_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-13 12:00:31

 <brad <at> 16systems.com> writes:

> 
> I run bjam.exe from the Msys shell... works great.
> 
> bjam toolset=xxx --build-type=complete install
> 

You can do this:
Download these files and unpack them in a folder like c:\mingw
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/binutils-2.18.50-20080109-2.tar.gz
2) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-runtime-3.14.tar.gz
3) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/w32api-3.11.tar.gz
4) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw-utils-0.3.tar.gz
5) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/mingw32-make-3.81-2.tar.gz
6) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mingw/gdb-6.8-mingw-3.tar.bz2

Add c:\mingw to the system PATH environment variable.

Download these files (gcc 4.3) and unpack them in a folder like c:\mingw 
1) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tdm-gcc/gcc-4.3.0-tdm-3-core.zip
2) http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tdm-gcc/gcc-4.3.0-tdm-3-g++.zip

Open a command prompt and go to the boost_1_35_0 folder and then run this
command: bjam install debug release --toolset=gcc --prefix=C:\Boost >
build_result.txt

Now you should have the compiled boost libraries files under C:\Boost\lib.
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It worked for me and I was able to use eclipse 3.4 / cdt 5.0 to build and run
boost asio ssl sample.