Re: [boost] ATTN: Boost GSoC mentors and students: Continuous Integration for GSoC thoughts

Subject: Re: [boost] ATTN: Boost GSoC mentors and students: Continuous Integration for GSoC thoughts
From: Alexander Lamaison (awl03_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-06-10 19:43:43

Daniel Pfeifer <daniel_at_[hidden]> writes:

> 2013/6/4 Daniel Pfeifer <daniel_at_[hidden]>
>
>> 2013/6/4 Dominique Devienne <ddevienne_at_[hidden]>
>>
>>> On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Niall Douglas <ndouglas_at_[hidden]
>>> >wrote:
>>>
>>> > 1. Test that code builds with GCC 4.6 and clang 3.2.
>>> >
>>> > 2. [...] with GCC 4.6 and clang 3.2.
>>> >
>>> > 3. [...] GCC 4.6 and clang 3.2.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Just curious: is Visual Studio support not included because not deemed
>>> important? Or not supported by this particular lib? Or not supported by
>>> Travis CI for some reason? (licensing?)
>>>
>>
>> Not supported by the platform. Travis-CI's build slaves run Ubuntu 12.04.
>>
>
> For minimal Windows support, you may go this route:
>
> * Install these packages: binutils-mingw-w64-i686 gcc-mingw-w64-i686
> g++-mingw-w64-i686 wine
> * CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc CXX=i686-w64-mingw32-g++
> * Link everything static, use the link flags -static-libgcc
> -static-libstdc++
> * run tests with wine.
>
> I have set this up once with CMake, but I don't use it anymore. I can dig
> up an example if someone is interested.

I for one would love to see how you got this working.  Boost is always
my stumbling block with cross-compiling for Windows on Linux with
CMake.  I can never get FindBoost to find Boost.

Alex

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