Hello, I've followed the instructions from here: http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/installation.html I can build from example hello.cpp from: /usr/share/boost-build/example/hello $ bjam ...found 9 targets... ...updating 5 targets... MkDir1 bin MkDir1 bin\gcc-mingw-3.4.5 MkDir1 bin\gcc-mingw-3.4.5\debug gcc.compile.c++ bin\gcc-mingw-3.4.5\debug\hello.o gcc.link bin\gcc-mingw-3.4.5\debug\hello.exe ...updated 5 targets... /usr/share/boost-build/example/hello $ ls Jamroot bin hello.cpp /usr/share/boost-build/example/hello $ find . . ./bin ./bin/gcc-mingw-3.4.5 ./bin/gcc-mingw-3.4.5/debug ./bin/gcc-mingw-3.4.5/debug/hello.exe ./bin/gcc-mingw-3.4.5/debug/hello.o ./hello.cpp ./Jamroot I copy the example directory to my h drive and edit the ../boost-build.jam so it points to the build system: /h/workspace/example/hello $ cat ../boost-build.jam # Copyright 2002, 2003 Vladimir Prus # Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. # (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) boost-build /usr/share/boost-build/kernel ; Then I run bjam and get an error saying it can't find bootstrap.jam. /h/workspace/example/hello $ ls Jamroot hello.cpp /h/workspace/example/hello $ bjam Unable to load Boost.Build: could not find build system. --------------------------------------------------------- h:\workspace\example\boost-build.jam attempted to load the build system by invoking 'boost-build /usr/share/boost-build/kernel ;' but we were unable to find "bootstrap.jam" in the specified directory or in BOOST_BUILD_PATH (searching /usr/share/boost-build/kernel, /usr/share/boost-build). Please consult the documentation at 'http://www.boost.org'. bootstrap.jam is contained in /usr/share/boost-build/kernel $ ls -l /usr/share/boost-build/kernel total 18 -rw-r--r-- 1 mtse Administ 194 Dec 19 17:01 boost-build.jam -rw-r--r-- 1 mtse Administ 4287 Dec 19 16:08 bootstrap.jam -rw-r--r-- 1 mtse Administ 10260 Dec 19 16:08 class.jam -rw-r--r-- 1 mtse Administ 7145 Dec 19 16:08 errors.jam -rw-r--r-- 1 mtse Administ 11414 Dec 19 16:08 modules.jam $ env | grep BOOS BOOST_BUILD_PATH=/usr/share/boost-build What could be wrong? How can I debug this? $ bjam -v Boost.Jam Version 3.1.16. OS=NT. Copyright 1993-2002 Christopher Seiwald and Perforce Software, Inc. Copyright 2001 David Turner. Copyright 2001-2004 David Abrahams. Copyright 2002-2005 Rene Rivera. Copyright 2003-2005 Vladimir Prus. Michael