https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/703 <pre class="wiki">Platform: Windows XP C++ Compiler: MinGW (from Dev-C++) Python Version: Python 2.4 (C:\Python24) I've unzipped all the boost files to C:\boost, and put bjam in the same directory. my command line looks like: C:\boost&gt;bjam "-sMINGW_ROOT_DIRECTORY=C:\Dev-Cpp" "-sTOOLS=mingw" install ... MkDir1 C:\Boost\lib spawn: No such file or directory I've ckecked all the tutorials on the boost site, and I can't seem to find anything on this. Any help would be appreciated. </pre> en-us /htdocs/site/boost.png https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/703 Trac 1.4.3 René Rivera Sun, 29 Apr 2007 17:51:30 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/703#comment:1 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/703#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> <span class="trac-field-old">assigned</span> → <span class="trac-field-new">closed</span> </li> </ul> <pre class="wiki">Logged In: YES user_id=33595 Originator: NO There is a know problem in Windows and the length of the PATH. The problem manifests itself as problems finding executables, which is what the spawn error above shows. The workaround is to shorten the length of your PATH. </pre> Ticket