Re: [Boost-users] Boost at Dev-Cpp 5 (Windows XP)

From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-26 09:50:04

Berno Wiegel wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I have problems with installing Boost. I downloaded boost_1_36_0.zip and extract it to c:\boost\.
> After that I downloaded boost-jam-3.1.16-1-ntx86(2).zip and extract bjam.exe to
> c:\boost\boost_1_36_0\.
> 
> Now I start cmd and goes to c:\boost\boost_1_36_0\!
> There I execut bjam with following parameters
> bjam.exe "-sMINGW_ROOT_DIRECTORY=C:\Dev-Cpp" "-sTOOLS=mingw" install

Please use the instructions from Boost Getting Started guide, as opposed to
any third-party docs. In particular, the eventual command like should
look line:

        bjam.exe toolset=mingw install

and prior to that, you should add mingw's bin directory to PATH.

- Volodya