On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 07:44 +0200, Frédéric Bron wrote: > Using cygwin 1.7.9(0.237/5/3) 2011-03-29 10:10. > > The following program: > > #include <iostream> > int main() { > > std::cout<<__MINGW32_MAJOR_VERSION<<'.'<<__MINGW32_MINOR_VERSION<<'\n'; > return 0; > } > > outputs: > - 3.18 when built with i686-pc-mingw32-g++ > - 3.11 when built with i686-w64-mingw32-g++ > why? > I have mingw-runtime version 3.18 installed. Is it used only by > i686-pc-mingw32? > > I found that: > $ grep -r "#define *__MINGW32_MINOR_VERSION" /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/ > /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/_mingw.h:#define > __MINGW32_MINOR_VERSION 18 > and > $ grep -r "#define *__MINGW32_MINOR_VERSION" /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/ > /usr/i686-w64-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/include/_mingw_mac.h:#define > __MINGW32_MINOR_VERSION 11 > > This seems to be one of the reasons that prevents me to use boost on cygwin > 1.7.
If you are using a mingw* compiler, then you're not "using" Boost on Cygwin. If you really want to build with Boost on Cygwin, install libboost-devel and its dependencies. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple