Hi Kirk Joppy, 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. Hope it works. cheers. Zhiyu Li 2013-07-02 lizy10b 发件人： Kirk Joppy 发送时间： 2013-07-02 12:12:50 收件人： boost 抄送： 主题： [Boost-users] Do correct instructions for MinGW install exist? Dear Boost users, I have recently been trying to install boost 1.53 for use with MinGW. I followed the instructions here http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#prepa... to the letter with resulting failure. I then noticed that when running b2 install --prefix=G:\boost_1_53_0\my-build from G:\boost_1_53_0\tools\build\v2 as per the instructions, the first few lines of output read warning: No toolsets are configured warning: Configuring default toolset "msvc" warning: If the defrault is wrong, your build may not work correctly warning: Use the "toolset=xxxxx" option to override our guess warning: For more configuration options, please consult <webpage> I have consulted the recommended web page and I think I have gotten a working install. However, given that the instructions as written are incorrect I would like to ask 1. Is there a correct, definitive source of instructions for installing boost (with MinGW)? 2. Should the documentation be corrected? I think this error is important given that the section I was working from is specifically indicated to pertain to non-MSVC builds. 3. I have found several conflicting sources of information regarding how to build boost for use with static linking. StackOverflow, for example, has several posts about this, none of which agree with each other. Is there are definitive, correct source of this information? If not I suppose I will post to this mailing list asking about it. Thank you for your consideration. Regards, kjoppy _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users