Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #8762: Boost.Build engine build fails with MinGW toolset

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Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:46:50 GMT

bootstrap.log

Tue, 02 Jul 2013 12:47:37 GMT

Could not attach plain bootstrap.log so compressed it.

Daryle Walker — Thu, 04 Jul 2013 17:28:00 GMT

anonymous — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 22:44:19 GMT

I managed to build it following these steps:

Installed MinGW stable (mingw-get-inst-20120426.exe) to C:\MinGW
Added zlib (get libz-1.2.7-1-mingw32-dev.tar.lzma and libz-1.2.7-1-mingw32-dll-1.tar.lzma from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/MinGW/Extension/zlib/zlib-1.2.7-1/)
Extract boost_1_54_0.zip to C:\MinGW (after it's finished it should be in C:\MinGW\boost_1_54_0)
Open a command prompt (cmd, not MSYS), add the MinGW bin directory to the PATH, build and install Boost.Build

SET PATH=C:\MinGW\bin;%PATH% cd C:\MinGW\boost_1_54_0\tools\build\v2 bootstrap.bat b2 install --prefix=C:/MinGW/b2

..\b2\bin\b2 -j %NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS% -a toolset=gcc --disable-icu --without-context --without-coroutine --build-type=complete stage

Wait for something between 40 minutes to 2 hours and you should have everything ready in C:\MinGW\boost_1_54_0\stage\lib

anonymous — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:24:23 GMT

I have rewritten, tested and published these instructions in my blog.

Eric Niebler — Sat, 26 Oct 2013 21:02:16 GMT

(In [86460]) mingw patch for bootstrap from Stephan T. Lavavej, refs #8762