Re: [Boost-users] MinGW binary installer for Boost?

Rene Rivera wrote:

John Pye wrote:

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Hi all,

Is there such a thing as a binary for Boost under MinGW? As far as I can tell, the correct way to get started with Boost on MinGW is to download the .EXE installer, unpack to c:\Boost, then run

bjam "-sMINGW_ROOT_DIRECTORY=c:\MinGW" "-sTOOLS=mingw" install

I found that this didn't install the libraries where I expected, however.

Where did it install them to? And where did you expect them?

I just assumed that because I was specifying MinGW, it would install the files in the MinGW file tree. My assumption was wrong: If I want that I have to specify --prefix=c:\MinGW, it seems. The files were installed to c:\Boost, but again this was a little not-as-expected: it installs to c:\Boost\include\boost-1_33_1\boost. Why not just to c:\Boost\include\boost ? I guess this is so that you can have multiple versions present? But in that case wouldn't it be neater to use c:\Boost1331, c:\Boost114 or whatever, similar to Python?

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I found this comment: http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~dfischer/manual/manual_topic38.html#topic41

which says that I have to do a bunch of manual file moving/renaming. Is that right? Really? There must be a better way, surely?

That document is wrong in the general case (it may be some strange requirement of that alwis project). There should be no need to rename, relocate, or otherwise post process the libraries generated from the regular Boost build.

Perhaps it would be good if there were (a) a binary installer for MinGW users. Would presumably be bound to a specific version of GCC, but otherwise portable?

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Please let me know if I'm missing something, or if there is a better way to get started with Boost under MinGW/MSYS.

Is there something is specific that isn't working for you? Any errors? Did you add the "c:\Boost\lib" dir to your library search path?

The specific problem I'm having now is that the libraries don't work for me. Here is a snippet from my SCons output: scons: Configure: Checking for Boost libraries... .sconf_temp\conftest_6.cpp <- | |#include <sstream> |#include |#include | |int main(void){ | std::stringstream ss; | int x1=1; | const int &x = x1; | boost::archive::text_oarchive oa(ss); | oa & x; | return 0; |} | g++ -o .sconf_temp\conftest_6.o -c -g -Wall -IC:\mingw\include -IC:\Boost\include\boost-1_33_1 .sconf_temp\conftest_6.cpp g++ -o .sconf_temp\conftest_6.exe .sconf_temp\conftest_6.o -LC:\mingw\lib -LC:\Boost\lib -lcppunit -lgcov -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm -lboost_serialization c:\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot find -lboost_serialization collect2: ld returned 1 exit status scons: Configure: no Do I need to link to something with -mgw (???) in the name, or is the linker just supposed to work int out?scons: Configure: Checking for Boost libraries... .sconf_temp\conftest_6.cpp <- | |#include <sstream> |#include |#include | |int main(void){ | std::stringstream ss; | int x1=1; | const int &x = x1; | boost::archive::text_oarchive oa(ss); | oa & x; | return 0; |} | g++ -o .sconf_temp\conftest_6.o -c -g -Wall -IC:\mingw\include -IC:\Boost\include\boost-1_33_1 .sconf_temp\conftest_6.cpp g++ -o .sconf_temp\conftest_6.exe .sconf_temp\conftest_6.o -LC:\mingw\lib -LC:\Boost\lib -lcppunit -lgcov -lgsl -lgslcblas -lm -lboost_serialization c:\MinGW\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.2\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: cannot find -lboost_serialization collect2: ld returned 1 exit status scons: Configure: no Perhaps I am supposed to add -mgw to my library name? That seems like a strange design choice? What I am doing wrong? Cheers JP