[Boost-users] compile boost with mingw-w64

Subject: [Boost-users] compile boost with mingw-w64
From: hjedfgsf_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-10-19 15:42:26

Hello,

one of our customers wants us to compile a native Windows x64 build of our application. As we are using a lot of C++0x code, we are forced to use a Win64 port of gcc 4.x/MinGW (http://mingw-w64.sourceforge.net/) instead of the regular Visual Studio 8 x64 compiler.

Unfortunately building boost with mingw-w64 fails.
This is the build log:

warning: Graph library does not contain optional GraphML reader.
note: to enable GraphML support, set EXPAT_INCLUDE and EXPAT_LIBPATH to the
note: directories containing the Expat headers and libraries, respectively.
Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled.
Note: Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information
Note: this is a strictly optional feature.
Skipping build of:  ./install  <build>no in common properties
Skipping build of:  ./install  <build>no in common properties
Skipping build of:  ./install  <build>no in common properties
Skipping build of:  ./install  <build>no in common properties
...skipped <pbin.v2\libs\system\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static\threading-multi>libboost_system-mgw44-mt-1_37.lib(clean) for lack of <pbin.v2\libs\system\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static\threading-multi>error_code.o...
...skipped <pbin.v2\libs\system\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static\threading-multi>libboost_system-mgw44-mt-1_37.lib for lack of <pbin.v2\libs\system\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static\threading-multi>error_code.o...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_system-mgw44-mt-1_37.lib for lack of <pbin.v2\libs\system\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static\threading-multi>libboost_system-mgw44-mt-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_system-mgw44-mt.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_system-mgw44-mt-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbin.v2\libs\system\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static>libboost_system-mgw44-1_37.lib(clean) for lack of <pbin.v2\libs\system\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static>error_code.o...
...skipped <pbin.v2\libs\system\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static>libboost_system-mgw44-1_37.lib for lack of <pbin.v2\libs\system\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static>error_code.o...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_system-mgw44-1_37.lib for lack of <pbin.v2\libs\system\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static>libboost_system-mgw44-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_system-mgw44.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_system-mgw44-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbin.v2\libs\date_time\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static\threading-multi>libboost_date_time-mgw44-mt-1_37.lib(clean) for lack of <pbin.v2\libs\date_time\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static\threading-multi>greg_month.o...
...skipped <pbin.v2\libs\date_time\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static\threading-multi>libboost_date_time-mgw44-mt-1_37.lib for lack of <pbin.v2\libs\date_time\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static\threading-multi>greg_month.o...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_date_time-mgw44-mt-1_37.lib for lack of <pbin.v2\libs\date_time\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\release\link-static\threading-multi>libboost_date_time-mgw44-mt-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_date_time-mgw44-mt.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_date_time-mgw44-mt-1_37.lib...

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...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_math_tr1f-mgw44-mt-d.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_math_tr1f-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_math_tr1l-mgw44-mt-d.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_math_tr1l-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_math_c99-mgw44-mt-d.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_math_c99-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_math_c99f-mgw44-mt-d.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_math_c99f-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_math_c99l-mgw44-mt-d.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_math_c99l-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_program_options-mgw44-mt-d.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_program_options-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_serialization-mgw44-mt-d.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_serialization-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_wserialization-mgw44-mt-d.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_wserialization-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_signals-mgw44-mt-d.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_signals-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_prg_exec_monitor-mgw44-mt-d.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_prg_exec_monitor-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_unit_test_framework-mgw44-mt-d.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_unit_test_framework-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_thread-mgw44-mt-d.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_thread-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbin.v2\libs\wave\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\debug\link-static\threading-multi>libboost_wave-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib(clean) for lack of <pbin.v2\libs\wave\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\debug\link-static\threading-multi>instantiate_cpp_exprgrammar.o...
...skipped <pbin.v2\libs\wave\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\debug\link-static\threading-multi>libboost_wave-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib for lack of <pbin.v2\libs\wave\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\debug\link-static\threading-multi>instantiate_cpp_exprgrammar.o...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_wave-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib for lack of <pbin.v2\libs\wave\build\gcc-mingw-4.4.0\debug\link-static\threading-multi>libboost_wave-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib...
...skipped <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_wave-mgw44-mt-d.lib for lack of <pbuild\mingw-x64\lib>libboost_wave-mgw44-mt-d-1_37.lib...
...failed updating 2436 targets...
Skipping build of:  ./headers  <build>no in common properties
Skipping build of:  ./headers  <build>no in common properties
Skipping build of:  ./headers  <build>no in common properties
Skipping build of:  ./headers  <build>no in common properties
warning: Graph library does not contain optional GraphML reader.
note: to enable GraphML support, set EXPAT_INCLUDE and EXPAT_LIBPATH to the
note: directories containing the Expat headers and libraries, respectively.
Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled.
Note: Please refer to the Boost.Regex documentation for more information
Note: this is a strictly optional feature.
Skipping build of:  ./build_all  <build>no in common properties
Skipping build of:  ./build_all  <build>no in common properties
Skipping build of:  ./build_all  <build>no in common properties
Skipping build of:  ./build_all  <build>no in common properties

This is our build batch file. mingwvars simply adds the MinGW-w64/bin folder to the Path envionment variable.

call mingwvars
bjam --toolset=gcc --prefix=.\build\mingw-x64 --without-mpi --without-python --build-type=complete -address-model=64 install
bjam --toolset=gcc --prefix=.\build\mingw-x64 --without-mpi --without-python --build-type=complete -address-model=64 clean
rd /s /q .\bin.v2

What did we do wrong?