MINGW Build missing mingw.jam

[anonymous]

If I try to build boost on Windows7 with mingw-shell:

  ./bootstrap.sh --toolset=mingw

then b2 and bjam will be build successfully, but the call

  ./b2

fails with

mingw.jam: No such file or directory
d:/extswrc/boost/tools/build/v2/build\toolset.jam:38: in toolset.using
rule mingw.init unknown in module toolset. Windows, these are static
d:/extswrc/boost/tools/build/v2/build\project.jam:888: in using
project-config.jam:12: in modules.loadsing shared runtime. On Linux, these
d:/extswrc/boost/tools/build/v2\build-system.jam:257: in load-config
d:/extswrc/boost/tools/build/v2\build-system.jam:423: in load-configuration-files
d:/extswrc/boost/tools/build/v2\build-system.jam:555: in load
d:\extswrc\boost\tools\build\v2/kernel\modules.jam:283: in import
d:\extswrc\boost\tools\build\v2\kernel\bootstrap.jam:142: in boost-build
d:\extswrc\boost\boost-build.jam:17: in module scopeg

if I copy the gcc.jam to mingw.jam and rename gcc into mingw in mingw.jam then I can build boost with b2. So I would suggest to add a mingw.jam file to tools/build/v2/tools.

[anonymous]

mingw jam file

[anonymous]

mingw jam python file

[zaravalle@…]

Had the same problem. The solution offered works nice, thanks!

[anonymous]

any chance this will get accepted?

[Vladimir Prus]

I am afraid this is wrong approach -- gcc.jam should handle gcc on all platforms, including windows.

The right way would be to make either make "boostrap.sh --toolset=mingw" select "gcc" and Boost.Build toolset or just make "bootstrap.sh --toolset=gcc" work.