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: Daniel Pfeifer (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-06-11 07:46:22

2013/6/11 Alexander Lamaison <awl03_at_[hidden]>

> 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.
>

Hi Alex,

I have set up a minimal example here:
https://github.com/purpleKarrot/CrossTest

cheers, Daniel