Re: [Boost-users] Problems compiling Boost_1_45_0

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Problems compiling Boost_1_45_0
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-31 14:27:37

AMDG

On 12/30/2010 3:41 PM, Alex Biddulph wrote:
> I recently decided to try and compile/install Boost for my 
> MSYS/MinGW64 system. I downloaded the lastest sources for both bjam 
> (3.1.18) and Boost itself (1.45.0).     (More precise details of my 
> sytem are below).
>
> I compiled my own bjam with no hassle and got a bin.ntx86_64 version 
> and copied it to /mingw/bin. I used the generic command to build it 
> (./build.sh) and let it auto-detect the toolset (gcc).
>
> However, the compilation started to fall over once I started to build 
> Boost itself. Using the command
>
> /mingw/bin/bjam --prefix=/mingw/boost toolset=gcc address-model=64 
> variant=release link=shared threading=multi --build-type=complete stage
>
> I first received the following error (attachment: error1.txt)
>
> After some googling I found a bug report where someone mention the 
> workaround of just removing the 'ignore-minus-q' part of the 
> statement, this removed the errors and allowed me to continue with the 
> build. Is this an acceptable workaround or is there something else 
> that I should be doing here?

bjam is included in the Boost distribution (tools/build/v2/engine, I think).
use that version.  (removing the 'ignore-minus-q' shouldn't cause any
problems, unless you use -q, though)

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe