Re: [boost] Going insane trying to build boost for android

Subject: Re: [boost] Going insane trying to build boost for android
From: Robert Dailey (rcdailey.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-26 16:17:47

On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Robert Dailey
<rcdailey.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 9:14 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> How many months has it been of lost google searching, trying to beat
>> b2 into submission. I have no idea at this point how to build boost
>> for Android. Really hoping I get some help here...
>>
>> So to start, here are the versions I'm using:
>>
>> - Android NDK r14b
>> - Boost 1.63.0
>>
>> I'm doing all of this on Windows 10, through command prompt.
>>
>> I want to use clang and libc++ to build boost for API 15. I figure the
>> easiest way is to generate a standalone toolchain using the NDK, so I
>> did that first:
>>
>>> %ANDROID_NDK%\build\tools\make_standalone_toolchain.py --arch arm --api 15 --stl libc++ "C:\android\_toolchains\arm-api-15"
>>
>> This generated the appropriate toolchain (I think).
>>
>> I then temporarily added this location to PATH:
>>
>>> set PATH=C:\android\_toolchains\arm-api-15\bin;%PATH%
>>
>> Then I ran bootstrap:
>>
>>> bootstrap.bat --with-toolset=clang
>>
>> Then I tried to build boost itself:
>>
>>> b2 --toolset=clang cxxflags="-stdlib=libc++ -std=c++14" threadapi=pthread --prefix=..\boost_android_arm --builddir=./ target-os=linux define=BOOST_FILESYSTEM_VERSION=3 --without-python link=static runtime-link=shared threading=multi variant=release install -j8
>>
>> However I get failures when it tries to run the clang command:
>>
>> 'C:\code\_third_party\boost_1_63_0\\clang38++.exe' is not recognized
>> as an internal or external command
>>
>> I'm not sure why it's appending that absolute path (that's where my
>> current directory is set to, and where boost source is). It should
>> just be trying to use "clang++" but doesn't look like it is.
>>
>> From the output, it looks like it's trying to use clang correctly I think:
>>
>> "clang++" -c -x c++ -stdlib=libc++ -std=c++14 -O3 -Wno-inline -Wall
>> -pthread -stdlib=libc++ -std=c++14 -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1
>> -DBOOST_FILESYSTEM_VERSION=3 -DBOOST_THREAD_USE_LIB=1 -DNDEBUG -I"."
>> -o "bin.v2\libs\wave\build\clang-linux-android\release\link-static\target-os-linux\threadapi-pthread\threading-multi\cpplexer\re2clex\aq.o"
>> "libs\wave\src\cpplexer\re2clex\aq.cpp"
>>
>> Am I going about this all wrong? How in the heck can I build boost for
>> android using the settings I specified above?
>
> So I beat on this a bit more and I'm past the clang path issue (it was
> some %~dp0/clang38++.exe stuff the batch file was doing which didn't
> resolve the right base path)
>
> What are the actual include directories I need to use for clang? I
> think that's the difficulty I'm running into now... errors like:
>
> clang-linux.compile.c++.without-pth
> bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\clang-linux-android\release\link-static\target-os-android\threadapi-pthread\threading-multi\lockpool.o
> In file included from libs\atomic\src\lockpool.cpp:16:
> In file included from .\boost/config.hpp:57:
> In file included from .\boost/config/platform/linux.hpp:15:
> C:/android/ndk/sources/cxx-stl/llvm-libc++/include\cstdlib:108:9:
> error: no member named 'strtold' in the global namespace
> using ::strtold;
>       ~~^
>
> My config jam:
>
> import common ;
> import configure ;
> import build-system ;
> import generate ;
> import modules ;
> import option ;
> import os ;
> import package ;
> import path ;
> import project ;
> import regex ;
> import set ;
> import targets ;
> import feature ;
> import property ;
>
> local androidNDKRoot = C:/android/ndk ; # put the relevant path
>
> using clang : android
>     :
>     $(androidNDKRoot)/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/windows-x86_64/bin/clang++
>     :
>     <compileflags>-std=c++14
>     <compileflags>-stdlib=libc++
>     <compileflags>--sysroot=$(androidNDKRoot)/platforms/android-15/arch-arm
>     <compileflags>-I$(androidNDKRoot)/sources/android/support/include
>     <compileflags>-I$(androidNDKRoot)/sources/cxx-stl/llvm-libc++abi/include
>     <compileflags>-I$(androidNDKRoot)/sources/cxx-stl/llvm-libc++/include
>     <compileflags>-fno-strict-aliasing
>     <compileflags>-D__GLIBC__
>     <compileflags>-DANDROID
>     <compileflags>-D__ANDROID__
>     <compileflags>-D_GLIBCXX__PTHREADS
>     <compileflags>-D__arm__
>     <compileflags>-D_REENTRANT
>     <compileflags>-O2
>     <compileflags>-DNDEBUG
>     ;
>
> And I'm running this command:
>
> b2 ^
>     --user-config=clang-android.jam ^
>     target-os=android ^
>     toolset=clang-android ^
>     threadapi=pthread ^
>     link=static ^
>     runtime-link=shared ^
>     threading=multi ^
>     variant=release ^
>     --prefix=..\boost_android_arm ^
>     --builddir=./ ^
>     --without-python ^
>     -j1 ^
>     install

And another oddity I noticed, is that Boost is not able to detect
C++14 being enabled even though I specify -std=c++14 in my jam file.
Note the config checks after I run b2:

$ b2     --user-config=clang-android.jam     target-os=android
toolset=clang-android     threadapi=pthread     link=static
runtime-link=shared     threading=multi     variant=release
--prefix=..\boost_android_arm     --builddir=./     --without-python
  -j1     install
Performing configuration checks

    - 32-bit                   : yes
    - arm                      : yes
    - symlinks supported       : yes
    - C++11 mutex              : no
    - lockfree boost::atomic_flag : no
    - Boost.Config Feature Check: cxx11_auto_declarations : no
    - Boost.Config Feature Check: cxx11_constexpr : no
    - Boost.Config Feature Check: cxx11_defaulted_functions : no
    - Boost.Config Feature Check: cxx11_final : no
    - Boost.Config Feature Check: cxx11_hdr_mutex : no
    - Boost.Config Feature Check: cxx11_hdr_tuple : no
    - Boost.Config Feature Check: cxx11_lambdas : no
    - Boost.Config Feature Check: cxx11_noexcept : no
    - Boost.Config Feature Check: cxx11_nullptr : no
    - Boost.Config Feature Check: cxx11_rvalue_references : no
    - Boost.Config Feature Check: cxx11_template_aliases : no
    - Boost.Config Feature Check: cxx11_thread_local : no
    - Boost.Config Feature Check: cxx11_variadic_templates : no