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

From: Beno Wiegl (onreb_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-26 10:33:13

Hey,

thx for your fast answer.
I found the mingw's bin. But I don't understand "and prior to that, you 
should add mingw's bin directory to PATH". What is PATH? How can I add a 
directory to it?

By the way: The "Boost Getting Started guide" was my first attempt. It 
didn't work for me either.

Grettings

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vladimir Prus" <vladimir_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost-users_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost at Dev-Cpp 5 (Windows XP)

> 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
>
>
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