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From: Simon Lam <cryxia AT gmail DOT com>
Subject:  boost library suggestion (regarding boost::filesystem)
Date:  Sun, 22 Jan 2006 13:13:42 +1300
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I'd like to suggest that the boost library is built as the gcc-nocygwin 
toolset (which, if I have read the docs correctly, is just an extension 
of the gcc toolset) or make available as a seperate package. The reason 
behind this is that part of the library, boost::filesystem, do not work 
as intended. The library, under the current cygwin build, thinks that 
the native path format is *nix style (/usr/blahblah), but correctly it 
should be windows format (c:\blahblah).

I've tried modifying the build script to build gcc-nocygwin using the 
sources provided by setup.exe, but the build errors out when compiling 
part of boost::filesystem (murphy's law must be at work here, determined 
to NOT let me use the one part of boost that I want to use). However, if 
I remove the -mno-cygwin flag from the g++ command, it compiles fine. 
This means thats (as far as I can see) that it compiles fine on gnu g++, 
but not on mingw g++.

I'm about to go and attempt to update mingw install in cygwin manually 
to see if that will help. Here's hoping I'll defeat murphy's law at 
last. I've spent about a day trying to get this library to work :/

 >Simon Lam


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