Re: [Boost-users] [build] Library suffix on mingw/win32

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-07-06 05:21:35

on Sun Jul 06 2008, Vladimir Prus <vladimir-AT-codesourcery.com> wrote:

> John Femiani wrote:
>
>> I have used boost for some time on windows with msvc, ...

>> BTW: --toolset=mingw failed to find the mingw toolset, but when I build
>> with gcc is seems to know what to do.
>
> This is as expected. The compiler binary is called "g++", so why do you
> expect "toolset=mingw" to be used?

Maybe because he has been using boost for some time?  We used to have a
mingw toolset, IIRC.

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