Name Conflict when Building Boost libraries with Cygwin/GCC

Question

I\'m in the process of migrating a C++ application from VC++ to GCC (running on Windows using Cygwin). My first problem now is that I cannot build the Boost libraries.

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Answer 1

Although the error message is not perfect, this is operator error. By default, the build uses system naming of library -- the naming you would have on your typical Unix system. So, yea, if you try to build both debug and release variant, you get naming clash.

If you add --layout=tagged or --layout=versioned to your command line, things should work. You can run "./b2 --help" from the top directory to get some explanation for these mean.