Eric Niebler 2013-10-29 02:41:
Why use the posix emulator? Why use mingw at all? I confess to be totally n00b about this stuff, but if you want to build boost using gcc on windows, it would seem to make sense to me to install mingw and then do things The Mingw Way, no? Tne MinGW/MinGW-w64 and MSYS are absolutely different projects and there is no tie-up between them. The MinGW/MinGW-w64 is native win32/win64 compiler, and MSYS is posix emulator.
In order to build win32/win64 native applications it is not necessarily to install MSYS.
Some observations:
1) There is a bootstrap.bat both at $BOOST_ROOT and and $BOOST_ROOT/tools/build/v2. They are different. Are we all taking about the same one? Which one should I be using (and why do we have two)? I speek about '$BOOST_ROOT/bootstrap.bat'.
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