I have got most of the 1.53 libraries built with MinGW, though some of them do not work correctly till now. I would like to share with you the following steps I did.
1. Add the bin folder of MinGW to your windows environment variable "PATH". 2. Open a the new commandline window, and type "bootstrap.bat mingw" in the boost souce root dir to build the b2.exe and bjam.exe. 3. Type "b2 toolset=gcc --prefix=G:\boost_1_53_0\my-build' to build the libraries.
Zhiyu Li, Doing these steps works to produce libs and header files. However, when using MinGW and msys, it's nice to have the libs installed in such a way that usual Linux build tools like configure can actually find them. How did you deal with this? Did you just put the files in \MinGW\lib and \MinGW\include\boost? Also, I have posted on your wiki asking a similar question so if you like we can just bring the conversation there. -kjoppy