Re: [Boost-users] how to build boost using mingw on windows?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] how to build boost using mingw on windows?
From: Jim Bell (Jim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-06-21 15:22:19

It looks like you have a working bjam.exe. That's good.

Use gcc instead of mingw as the toolset.

If it still gives you trouble, modify
boost/tools/build/v2/user-config.jam, uncommenting this row:
    using gcc ;

(Note that the space before the semi-colon is important.)

Good luck!
-Jim

On 1:59 PM, Ákos Maróy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This might be a frequent question asked, but I can't seem to find a
> proper response. I'm trying to build boost using the current version
> of mingw, from under msys, but I can't seem to make it work. I tried
> boost 1.45.0 and 1.46.1 as well. here are my results:
>
>
>
> ...