Re: [Boost-build] The state of WCE support in Boost

From: David Deakins (ddeakins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-20 00:21:13

Paul Heil wrote:
> I'd like to use the Boost library in my Windows Mobile / WinCE projects. 
> I've made some progress compiling Boost 1.36.0
> with STLport-5.1.5 for that platform, but I've run in to some issues.
> 
> During my research, I've found e-mails dating from 2005 to 2007 that 
> report varying degrees of success, but nothing
> conclusive. Has anybody put together a guide for compiling for the 
> ARMV4I WM5/WM6 platforms using Visual Studio 9?

Although we haven't exactly put together a guide, my group has been 
using Boost with STLport-5.1.5 and Visual C++ 8 (VS2005) for several 
years.  We compile for a WinCE 5.0 x86 target and also cross-compile for 
WM5 ARMV4I.  A great deal of the Boost libraries work quite well under 
WinCE.

> 
> My specific problem is that when I attempt to link against the Boost 
> libraries I've compiled, I get a linker error:
> fatal error LNK1112: module machine type 'X86' conflicts with target 
> machine type 'THUMB'
> when linking against: libboost_system-vc90-mt-sp-1_36.lib
> 

I believe this has to do with how the linkflags settings are configured 
in your user-config.jam file.  You'll need to explicitly ask for 
/machine:THUMB to be passed to the linker or else it will default to 
building the libraries for X86.  For an example of the compile and link 
flags we included in our builds you look at the summary of the VeecoFTC 
regression test platform under the Windows section of the trunk 
regression tests:

http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/summary.html

Just click on the VeecoFTC link in the header and you'll see the 
user-config.jam info we use for WM5.

-Dave