Re: [Boost-users] Newbie: Boost for Windows"

John Read writes:

David Abrahams wrote:

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That's a tough row to hoe. MinGW is a non-cygwin toolset. If you try to build bjam under cygwin, you'll get a cygwin version of bjam. I suggest you remove MinGW/bin from your path (maybe even uninstall MinGW) and use the gcc-nocygwin toolset (http://www.boost.org/tools/build/v1/gcc-nocygwin-tools.html) *or* you give up on the cygwin environment and use the MinGW toolset from a regular windows command prompt.

It is not cygwin per se. I simply would like a proper shell to do my work in.

Yes. What's your problem with gcc-nocygwin?

Would using the MSYS command prompt make my row any less rocky?

On windows, building bjam is only supported under CMD and cygwin bash, and I don't know how well either such bjams can run under MSYS.

Also, when I use a DOS prompt and run build.bat from the jam_src directory, I seem to use the msvc toolset. This generates a bin.ntx86 directory with a bjam.exe.

What's wrong with that?

Looks like I am still not getting the toolset pointing to the gcc compiler.

You just built the build tool. Now you can use any of the toolsets described at http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started.html to build Boost.

Is there any doc on how to compile Boost using the MinGW toolset and the gcc compiler on windows (preferably with some useable shell, not the DOS prompt)? If no, I will be glad to document this for us all when I get it sorted. Thanks, John

If you want mingw-style executables without using CMD, use gcc-nocygwin from the bash prompt. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com