The guides they have here are a bit limited, I have no idea what they talk about and how I can build Boost::Filesystem in MingW (CodeBlocks). I have downloaded the pre-compiled version of bjam, and when I make a batch file with arguments for bjam it creates a directory bin.v2, inside that dir I have a lot of empty directories. It also somehow says: failed to compile "..." and g++ is an unknown app I copied g++.exe to the same directory...it seemed to do more...but the text is going to fast to read =/ Any help would be very much appreciated :) Decrius

Quote:Original post by fpsgamer
Did you read the getting started guide ?

I used this guide to build boost for Windows and Mac OS X; its pretty straight forward and beginner friendly.

I found it being pretty vague. It has very short descriptions and is primarily for Visual Studio.

Both myself and others have got it to compile under Mingw, so it is far from impossible.

@Decrius

My guess is that you need to add your compiler's directory to your PATH environmental variable. To see your path, open a command prompt (windows key + r, type "cmd") and enter "echo %PATH%".

If this doesn't contain your compiler's folder, add it by going into system properties (windows key + pause, or right click on my computer and choose "properties"), choose the "advanced" tab, click the "environmental variables" button. Find an entry called "PATH" and append a semicolon and the C:\path\to\g++, so "lots;of;other;entries;C:\path\to\g++".

Check that your new path works by opening another command window (don't use the same one, AFAIK environmental variables are set at process start) and see if you can run g++ from a directory that doesn't have g++.exe in it.

Once you have that set up and barring any other problems it should build correctly then.

Thanks rip-off, that fixed it :).