title: Building Boost 1.52 with MinGW
body: <p>I am trying to find an authorative answer on how to build <em>Boost 1.52</em> with <em>MinGW</em>. I found some pointers in the Internet that boil down to build it like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>cd tools\build\v2\engine
  build.bat mingw
  
  copy bin.ntx86\bjam.exe ..\..\..\..
  cd ..\..\..\..
  bjam --toolset=gcc
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Since those instructions date back as far as for <em>Boost 1.45</em> and since I couldn't verify this with Boost's own instructions I'd like to verify if the steps above are the correct ones to build Boost with MinGW.</p>
  
  <p>I tried these steps myself and it <em>seemed</em> to build Boost, however I have not yet done extensive testing (nor would I have a concept to do this).</p>