On 23.06.2013 02:39, Kirk Joppy wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to build the regex library which I will then use through MinGW. I already installed MinGW and added ..\MinGW\bin to my system PATH.
I now want to build regex and put it somewhere. I am aware of two different pieces of documentation detailing how to do this:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#prepa...
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/doc/html/bbv2/installation.html
The main difference seems to be whether you should be in BOOST_ROOT or BOOST_ROOT\tools\build\v2. Which is it?
If you are building Boost C++ Libraries, then it should be BOOST_ROOT, as explained by the former document. The latter document documents how you would install Boost.Build to your system, should you want it.
In either case I gather than I should do this
$ bootstrap.bat gcc
and in fact I've done that in both BOOST_ROOT and BOOST_ROOT\tools\build\v2 with apparent success. I just don't know what I'm supposed to do next. I tried running
$ b2 --prefix=H:\boost-test --with-regex install
from within BOOST_ROOT\tools\build\v2,
Try running same from BOOST_ROOT. HTH, Volodya