[C++-sig] can't build boost.python under msys/windows

[David Abrahams]

"Jorge Vargas" <jorge.vargas at gmail.com> writes:

> Could someone stop what I'm doing wrong?
>
> $ echo $PATH
> .:/usr/local/bin:/mingw/bin:/bin:/c/WINDOWS/system32:/c/WINDOWS:/c/WINDOWS/System32/Wbem:/c/Program
> Files/Subversion/bin:/c/Python24:/c/Python24/Scripts
>
> $ bjam "-sTOOLS=mgw" stage

What gave you an idea that would work?  Does our documentation mention
"mgw" somewhere?

> $ bjam "-sTOOLS=mingw" stage
>
> both commands fail doing a lot of lookups for vc-7_1 and the .Net framework
> (I have those install)

You are doing this from the msys shell, right?  That's not supported.
Use the good-old Windows command shell, "CMD," and you should be all
set.

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Dave Abrahams
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