Building boost for MinGW

[Kartoffel]

Hello' Guys,

I've been trying to build Boost with Mingw, but for some reason I'm having troubles making it run along.

Here is how I compiled it:

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- Downloaded & extracted Boost V 1.60.0
- Ran 'bootstrap.bat mingw' in its root folder
- Ran 'bjam.exe --toolset=gcc stage --with-filesystem --build_dir=BOOST_BUILD_GCC'
- Went to Code::Blocks IDE & added both filesystem & system (debug version) compiled boost libraries compiled from '$boostroot/stage/lib' with their respective linking option ( https://i.gyazo.com/27a5d51fc9550e37e241278885100f15.png )
- Compiled with MinGW
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This got me the following errors:

e:/program files (x86)/codeblocks/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.1/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lboost_filesystem
e:/program files (x86)/codeblocks/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.7.1/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: cannot find -lboost_system

How can I fix this issue ?
Thank you & Merry Christmas !

NOTE: My 'gcc' command line command uses the one provided with Code::Blocks (same version).

[Yanson]

I don't think you need to add -lboost_filesystem and -lboost_system to other linker options.


You may want to try newen MinGW. Which uses a more recent version of MinGW, than what comes with codeblocks. It also comes with boost pre installed.

http://nuwen.net/mingw.html