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hi,

for building boost 1.35.0 with bjam 3.1.16 and mingw gcc 3.4.5 on winxp sp2 i created a *.BAT-file like follows:

@echo off SETLOCAL SET MINGW=C:\Development_Compiler\MinGW SET PYTHN=C:\Development_Compiler\Python25 SET BUILD=C:\Development_Libs\Boost_v1.35.0 SET path=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\system32;%MINGW%\Bin cls bjam.exe -a "-sTOOLS=mingw" "-sGCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY=%MINGW%" "-sPYTHON_ROOT=%PYTHN%" "-sPYTHON_VERSION=2.5"

All the -s option above have no effect.

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--link=static --runtime-link=static --threading=single --optimization=on --toolset=gcc --build-dir=%BUILD% --build-type=complete install ENDLOCAL

Remove "--" in front of all properties. "--build-dir" and "--build-type" are options and need "--". Everything else is properties, which tell what flavour of binaries you want to get, and don't need "--".

- Volodya

hi volodya and all others, thanks for your responses. a) but there is one thing i don't understand. why i got libs like boost_xyz.a boost_xyz.dll libboost_xyz.a without doing any rename while builing boost 1.34.1 with bjam 3.1.15? b) why the -s options have no effect? version "-sPYTHON_VERSION=2.5" of desired python and libpython25.a in "-sPYTHON_ROOT=%PYTHN%" (...\lib) is found by bjam. finally it compiles and works well (boost 1.34.1 with bjam 3.1.15 and nearly identical BAT-file). aside from this, http://www.boost.org/doc/tools/build/doc/html/jam/usage.html says -s var=value set the variable var to value, overriding both internal variables and variables imported from the environment. Command-line and Environment Variable Quoting ... Boost Jam remedies that by treating all such settings as a single string if they are surrounded by double-quotes. ... (all surrounding by me, and not only the value part) daniel ____________________________________________________________________ Ihre Messenger, Communities und E-Mails jetzt in einem Programm! WEB.DE MultiMessenger http://www.produkte.web.de/messenger/?did=3071