Dear all, I have tried to build modular-boost on windows (win7 64bit) using the mingw toolset. The steps that I followed (after some trial & error) are: 1. clone boost-modular from into %home%\usr\local\boost 2. in that boost directory; type bootstrap mingw ===========output=============== Building Boost.Build engine Bootstrapping is done. To build, run: .\b2 To adjust configuration, edit 'project-config.jam'. Further information: - Command line help: .\b2 --help - Getting started guide: http://boost.org/more/getting_started/windows.html - Boost.Build documentation: http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/index.html ================================ 3. after apparently successful bootstrap, type b2 -a -d+2 -q --prefix=c:\users\amwink\usr\local --build-type=complete --build-dir=build toolset=gcc link=shared runtime-link=shared The output is below. So the commands cl.exe and ml.exe, which are not in mingw but can be used from the masm32 package are found, but their output is not recognised (as I understand) Is that correct? Would there be a way around this other than installing VC++? Many thanks Alle Meije ===========output=============== Building the Boost C++ Libraries. Performing configuration checks - symlinks supported : yes (cached) - 32-bit : yes (cached) - arm : no (cached) - mips1 : no (cached) - power : no (cached) - sparc : no (cached) - x86 : yes (cached) - has_icu builds : no (cached) warning: Graph library does not contain MPI-based parallel components. note: to enable them, add "using mpi ;" to your user-config.jam - zlib : no (cached) - iconv (libc) : no (cached) - iconv (separate) : yes (cached) - icu : no (cached) - icu (lib64) : no (cached) - g++ -shared-* supported : no (cached) - message-compiler : no (cached) - compiler-supports-ssse3 : yes (cached) - compiler-supports-avx2 : yes (cached) - gcc visibility : yes (cached) - long double support : yes (cached) warning: skipping optional Message Passing Interface (MPI) library. note: to enable MPI support, add "using mpi ;" to user-config.jam. note: to suppress this message, pass "--without-mpi" to bjam. note: otherwise, you can safely ignore this message. warning: No python installation configured and autoconfiguration note: failed. See http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/building.html note: for configuration instructions or pass --without-python to note: suppress this message and silently skip all Boost.Python targets - zlib : no (cached) - zlib : no (cached) warning: Skipping Boost.Locale library with threading=single. warning: Skipping Boost.Thread library with threading=single. warning: Skipping Boost.Wave library with threading=single. - zlib : no (cached) Component configuration: - atomic : building - chrono : building - container : building - context : building - coroutine : building - date_time : building - exception : building - filesystem : building - graph : building - graph_parallel : building - iostreams : building - locale : building - log : building - math : building - mpi : building - program_options : building - python : building - random : building - regex : building - serialization : building - signals : building - sync : building - system : building - test : building - thread : building - timer : building - wave : building gcc.compile.c++ build\boost\bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\gcc-mingw-4.8.1\release\threading-multi\lockpool.o "g++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -mthreads -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_ATOMIC_DYN_LINK=1 -DBOOST_ATOMIC_SOURCE -DBOOST_USE_WINDOWS_H -DNDEBUG -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0500 -I"." -c -o "build\boost\bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\gcc-mingw-4.8.1\release\threading-multi\lockpool.o" "libs\atomic\src\lockpool.cpp" gcc.link.dll build\boost\bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\gcc-mingw-4.8.1\release\threading-multi\libboost_atomic-mgw48-mt-1_56.dll.a "g++" "-Wl,--out-implib,build\boost\bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\gcc-mingw-4.8.1\release\threading-multi\libboost_atomic-mgw48-mt-1_56.dll.a" -o "build\boost\bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\gcc-mingw-4.8.1\release\threading-multi\libboost_atomic-mgw48-mt-1_56.dll" -shared -Wl,--start-group "build\boost\bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\gcc-mingw-4.8.1\release\threading-multi\lockpool.o" -Wl,-Bstatic -Wl,-Bdynamic 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