On 3 January 2018 at 12:43, Andrzej Krzemienski via Boost wrote:

2018-01-03 11:57 GMT+01:00 Marcel Raad :

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-----Original Message----- From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Andrzej Krzemienski via Boost Sent: Mittwoch, 3. Januar 2018 11:04 To: boost@lists.boost.org Cc: Andrzej Krzemienski Subject: [boost] Need help with bootstrap.bat

I am trying to set up the environment for developing boost libraries, and it is my understanding that the first step (after cloning a git repository) is to build b2 itself using the script bootstrap.bat. I got this from instructions at https://github.com/boostorg/boost/wiki/Getting-Started (n.b. It was very difficult to find this page as there is no direct link from www.boost.org). I am using MinGW on Windows, no Visual Studio installed. Nonetheless bootstrap.bat concludes that it should compile with cl.exe, and it does not work. I know that MinGWis not supported, but I have to take my chances.

What I've always done when building with MinGW is using bootstrap.sh from within the MSYS shell instead of bootstrap.bat from cmd.exe. This will also get you a b2.exe.

Indeed. It works. Thanks! I will try to look for a place where this could be documented.

I don't use MinGW myself, but try bootstrap.bat help bootstrap.bat gcc or bootstrap.bat mingw Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

On 03.01.2018 07:54, Daniel James via Boost wrote:

On 3 January 2018 at 10:04, Andrzej Krzemienski via Boost wrote:

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(n.b. It was very difficult to find this page as there is no direct link from www.boost.org). I'll add a link to the 'getting started' section. Maybe we should move more content onto the github wiki? It's just a git repo with markdown pages so it shouldn't be too hard to serve it from the website if people would like it to be more integrated.

github's pages support is really good, even if you don't want to use jekyll. So why not use that ? If migrating the main website isn't an option, it could at least be a subdomain, such as `doc.boost.org`. That, in turn, could serve as a hub and refer to project-specific docs, such as `http://boostorg.github.io/build` (which doesn't exist yet, but could very easily be populated, similar to other projects such as boost.python - http://boostorg.github.io/python) Stefan -- ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...