Building Boost with MinGW64 without MASM

Question

I tried to build the Boost library for native 64bit using MinGW64 compiler, but got some failures. Any pointers are appreciated. Thanks.

I got the bjam.exe (b2.exe)

Answer 1

(If this is relevant still) This happens when your build folders have msvc artifacts left in there. I'm assuming your project-config.jam was initially

import option ;
using msvc ; 

and you had built for msvc then changed to "using gcc" In that case you need to issue the following first

bjam --clean

which should clear the artifacts from msvc build and then you can issue and things should be fine

bjam toolset=gcc variant=..... and so on and on

by the way I saw you writing you had Windows 7 x64. your bjam command needs to have adress-model=64 otherwise 32bit binaries will be produced...