Re: [Boost-users] MinGW Build Issues

Chris Miller wrote:

On Jan 15, 2008 9:17 PM, Jonathan Turkanis wrote:

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Chris Miller wrote:

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Why on earth I try and support Windows is beyond my comprehension. It's just something I do.

I'm having some massive difficulties making Boost build with MinGW so I can start using it from Code::Blocks. I've tried using Boost's native Jam system, but first I have to build that. You don't have to build it; you can download a pre-built binary: http://tinyurl.com/2q36f.

For MinGW/Windows Vista, which one would I pick?

I assume boost-jam-3.1.16-1-ntx86.zip

I picked the "platform independent" one, which didn't work.

Needless to say, the platform independent download is not one of the pre-built binaries.

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Any help here would be nice! Have you tried:

set PATH= build mingw

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That's not what the build instructions said. They said to use build.bat mingw, 'cause that's my toolkit. It kept trying it with MSVC for some odd reason.

It shouldn't matter which toolset you use to build bjam. The resulting executable will still work with MinGW. If you read Building Bjam (http://www.boost.org/doc/html/jam/building.html), you will see that running bjam <toolset-name> requires that the compiler be in your PATH. In addition, I've found that having other compilers in my PATH sometimes confuses build.bat.

http://mindofsauron.blogspot.com/2008/01/boost-me-up.html

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