Re: [Boost-build] boost build and WINCE

From: Francesco Gabbanini (f.gabbanini_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-13 06:25:42

Hi Reece,

thanks to your hints, I have started exploring bjam to support CE
builds, focusing on ARM processors.
I did not have the batch file vc_arm.bat that you mentioned in my
Visual Studio 8 directories, so I have written one on my own.
Next, I wrote a .jam file, named vc-8_0_ARM-tools.jam, to support
building on ARM processors.
The file is similar to vc-8_0-tools.jam, which can be found under
boost\tools\build\v1, but it sets some different flags for the compiler
and linker.

Then I tried to build the boost date_time project. It seems that the
compiler works ok, and the linker properly creates all the lib versions
of the date_time libraries.
But I get an error when linking the dll version.
The error seems to happen on the file greg_month.obj and it says: fatal
error LNK1112: module machine type 'X86' conflicts with target machine
type 'ARM'.

Do you have any idea of what the problem could be?
To better understand, I thought I could show you the .bat file and the
.jam file I mentioned above: can I attach files to the emails posted to
this list?

Thanks for helping,
Francesco.


Reece Dunn wrote:
> Francesco Gabbanini wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am relatively new to boost build.
> > I have used it with success to build a fairly large project I am working 
> > on.
> > Now I would like to use bjam to build boost libraries, in order to use
> > them on Windows CE devices, but I am facing some difficulties.
> >   
>
> Join the club :)
>
> > How can I instruct bjam to produce CE compatible code? Is there a msvc
> > toolkit specially designed for CE? Has anyone had similar experiences on
> > bjam and CE?
> >   
>
> You could install embedded VC++ 4 (which is the embedded version of VC6), 
> but don't expect the Boost code to work properly on it as VC6 support is 
> being removed in favour of more standard complian compilers.
>
> If you have VC/VS2005, you can install the embedded device support. This 
> will give you access to the embedded platform and the arm cross-compiler. 
> However, I have been having problems with it (using the vc_arm.bat 
> configuration file):
>
> *  vc_arm.bat does not appear to set up the directories properly to 
> correctly build with the CE compiler.
> *  there are other compilers (sh, mips, cex86) that do not have a 
> configuration batch file :(
> *  you need many defines to get things building.
>
> I have made some progress in supporting CE builds and auto-detection for 
> VC2005, but I am having some problems trying to work out what is going wrong 
> and have been busy with other things (response file support, PCH support and 
> work).
>
> I have a project that I would like to support WinCE on, so I will get around 
> to this. If you or anyone else has WinCE experience, I'd be happy to 
> collaborate on CE support.
>
> - Reece
>
>
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