Yep we really do have a completely different compiler\toolchain from any currently present, with different switches to GCC, different extensions for compiled objects etc. Of course bjam doesn't need to be built for the target architecture :) It's just that while poking around it looked like bjam needed to have some knowledge about the toolchains it was building for and I suspected that the .jam files in the directory I mentioned earlier were a means to do this. Effectively I want to take steps to make our tools one of the "Builtin tools", mentioned in the help here: http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/reference/tools.html, so our customers can build Boost with our tools without any fuss. - Sean Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:00:05 +0400 From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] building boost with unsupported compiler To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Message-ID: <h1qqlh$b7t$1@ger.gmane.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii McLemon, Sean wrote:

Hi,

I'm looking to build Boost with a compiler not currently supported, but

I'm struggling to find information on where I should really begin. It

seems that I'll need to create my own toolset module (something like

..../boost_1_39_0/tools/build/v2/tools/blackfin.jam) with the

toolchain's specific build switches etc,

You should only do that if you really have a custom compiler. For gcc port, the 'gcc' toolset is fine.

rebuild bjam then build Boost.

No need to rebuild bjam -- it's a host program.

I presume that boost also has some libraries which may need some

specific options, or tweaking to work but am I getting the gist of it

correctly? Should I be expecting major configuration headaches

(toolchain-specific build\runtime issues aside) in adding a new

architecture?

I would not expect too much problems. I know folks were compiling Boost for arm-linux, in particular, with minor issues. - Volodya