Jim,
It looks like you have a working bjam.exe. That's good.
Use gcc instead of mingw as the toolset.
it doesn't seem to work. if I try to compile bjam with the gcc toolset, it just won't: $ ./bootstrap.sh --with-toolset=gcc Building Boost.Jam with toolset gcc... Failed to build Boost.Jam Consult 'bootstrap.log' for more details where in the log the errors are like the following: $ cat bootstrap.log ### ### Using 'gcc' toolset. ### rm -rf bootstrap mkdir bootstrap gcc -o bootstrap/jam0 command.c compile.c debug.c expand.c glob.c hash.c hdrmacr o.c headers.c jam.c jambase.c jamgram.c lists.c make.c make1.c newstr.c option.c output.c parse.c pathunix.c pathvms.c regexp.c rules.c scan.c search.c subst.c timestamp.c variable.c modules.c strings.c filesys.c builtins.c pwd.c class.c na tive.c md5.c w32_getreg.c modules/set.c modules/path.c modules/regex.c modules/p roperty-set.c modules/sequence.c modules/order.c execunix.c fileunix.c builtins.c:32:23: fatal error: sys/wait.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. execunix.c:17:26: fatal error: sys/resource.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. fileunix.c:97:17: fatal error: ar.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. if I try to compile bjam with the mingw toolset, then I do get a bjam executabl, but then I get the error posted in the previous e-mail, even if I tell it to use the gcc toolset: $ ./bjam.exe toolset=gcc mingw.jam: No such file or directory c:/Users/akos/src/boost_1_46_1/tools/build/v2/build\toolset.jam:38: in toolset.u sing rule mingw.init unknown in module toolset. c:/Users/akos/src/boost_1_46_1/tools/build/v2/build\project.jam:886: in using project-config.jam:12: in modules.load c:/Users/akos/src/boost_1_46_1/tools/build/v2\build-system.jam:257: in load-conf ig c:/Users/akos/src/boost_1_46_1/tools/build/v2\build-system.jam:423: in load-conf iguration-files c:/Users/akos/src/boost_1_46_1/tools/build/v2\build-system.jam:554: in load c:\Users\akos\src\boost_1_46_1\tools\build\v2/kernel\modules.jam:283: in import c:\Users\akos\src\boost_1_46_1\tools\build\v2\kernel\bootstrap.jam:142: in boost -build c:\Users\akos\src\boost_1_46_1\boost-build.jam:17: in module scope
If it still gives you trouble, modify boost/tools/build/v2/user-config.jam, uncommenting this row: using gcc ;
(Note that the space before the semi-colon is important.)
same as above.. I get the same results for both boost 1.46.1 and 1.45.0 Akos