I have experimented further with bjam input syntax, trying to follow the examples in http://www.boost.org/tools/build/v1/build_system.htm. Since I am currently interested in the filesystem library only, I added "--with-filesystem". This reduced the amount of output so that the CMD window's capacity was not exceeded. I discovered that the first thing going wrong was: borland-C++-action bin\boost\libs\filesystem\build\boost_filesystem.dll\borland- 5_6_4\debug\exception.obj C:\Boost\boost_1_33_1\libs\filesystem\build\../src/exception.cpp: Fatal F1003 C:\Boost\boost_1_33_1\boost/filesystem/config.hpp 23: Error directive: Dynamic linking Boost.Filesystem does not work for Borland; use static linking instead *** 1 errors in Compile *** I have tried variations on -sBUILD=runtime-link-static and -sBUILD=<runtime-link>static, but to no avail; I keep getting the message that the borland-C++-action is requesting Dynamic linking, which does not work with Borland. What is the precise syntax to get only static linking from bjam? Jerry Schreiber