Re: [Mingw-msys] jam and MSYS-minGW

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Saturday 07 July 2007 08:32, Pranay Pramod wrote:
> I am a newbie to MSYS...
>
> ... when i type jam(a build tool like make) on MSYS console, it asks
> me to set the JAM_TOOLSET
>
> Although i did
> set JAM_TOOLSET=MINGW
> still am getting the same message - indicate the toolset.

> The same setting works from the windows command prompt.

The `set' command doesn't work the same way in UNIX, (and hence the MSYS 
bash shell), as it does in cmd.exe.  You would need:

  export JAM_TOOLSET
  JAM_TOOLSET=MINGW

This is the standard Bourne shell invocation; the variable assignment 
may precede the `export command, if preferred.  For the `bash' shell, 
provided by MSYS, you may abbreviate to:

  export JAM_TOOLSET=MINGW

HTH,
Keith.