[build2] error when trying to compile build2

[Phillip Shelton]

Hi,

I am trying to step through the bootstrapping steps for MinGW on Windows and after compiling the first exe the second step fails.

>c:\compilers\build2_build\build2-toolchain-0.15.0-a.0.20220204083418.a451ee2a9b05\build2>build2\b-boot --version
build2 99999.99999.99999
libbutl 99999.99999.99999
host x86_64-w64-mingw32
This is free software released under the MIT license.

>c:\compilers\build2_build\build2-toolchain-0.15.0-a.0.20220204083418.a451ee2a9b05\build2>build2\b-boot config.cxx=c:\compilers\mingw64\bin\g++ config.bin.lib=static build2\exe{b}
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'butl::invalid_basic_path<char>'
  what():  invalid filesystem path

I am not sure what is happening except that something that the above command is trying to do produces an invalid filesystem path. Whatever that means.

Do you have any further pointers that will help?

Phillip Shelton
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-----Original Message-----
From: Boris Kolpackov <boris at codesynthesis.com> 
Sent: Friday, 4 February 2022 6:33 PM
To: Phillip Shelton via users <users at build2.org>
Cc: Phillip Shelton <phillip.shelton at cardno.com.au>
Subject: Re: [build2] error when trying to compile build2

Phillip Shelton via users <users at build2.org> writes:

> For my first problem, it does not help that I don't want to use the 
> default c:\build2\ location so it did not exist. As I said, pointing 
> the idir variable in the bat file to the location that I did want to 
> use "fixed" that location.

Ah, I see. You can use the --install-dir option to achieve the same result (you can see all the available options with --help).