Re: [Boost-users] Cannot build Boost

Ondřej Majerech wrote:

On 27 November 2010 07:43, Vladimir Prus wrote:

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Greg Ward wrote:

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So: how do you build boost 1.45 with 1) a custom compiler

The same way as 1.44:

./bootstrap.sh edit ./project-config.jam to specify your new compiler. ./bjam toolset=whatever-version

That's excellent. I wish I'd known that before I started building Boost my way.

Can this be put into the documentation, please? Preferrably into the Getting Started guide.

This *is* in the getting started guide. It appears that you're not the first one to miss that though, which suggests that the "Simplified build from source" section should be renamed to "Build from source" section and somewhat expanded, while the current "Build from source" section should be remained "How to build from source if you have really quirky requirements" and somewhat reduced. I'll try to do that for 1.46. - Volodya