Getting up and running with boost

So I have cygwin installed and up and running. I can change directories, whole nine yards.

I have run the following test and it works.

NOTE:

C:\cygwin\

and

C:\cygwin\boost_1_53_0

also in my path system environment variable I have:

%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\system32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2008b Student\bin;C:\Program Files\MATLAB\R2008b Student\bin\win32;C:\cygwin\bin

Now - when I try and run the following: (Boost TUtorial) bootstrap.cmd on a windows machine I get the following error;

### "Could not find a suitable toolset."
###
### You can specify the toolset as the argument, i.e.:
###     .\build.bat msvc
###
### Toolsets supported by this script are: borland, como, gcc, gcc-nocygwin,
###     intel-win32, metrowerks, mingw, msvc, vc7, vc8, vc9, vc10, vc11
###

Please any help would be fantastic

jason m

Posted 2013-04-21T20:10:27.470

Reputation: 93

Do you have gcc installed? BTW prebuilt-binaries are available from boost, therefore you just need to copy those header files into your include directory and download those binary lib files you need. (You need not build boost yourself on cygwin) – phoeagon – 2013-04-22T02:31:40.677

Yes I have tested gcc with the hello.cpp test available. – jason m – 2013-04-22T13:27:16.113

Getting up and running with boost

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