Re: [Boost-build] [wince] Boost on wince for dumm

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [wince] Boost on wince for dumm
From: David Deakins (ddeakins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-18 01:36:57

Andy Schweitzer wrote:
> 
> This command:
> bjam system toolset=msvc-8.0~wm5~stlport5.2 stdlib=stlport > bjam.txt
> 
> gets:
> libs\system\src\error_code.cpp(85) : error C2039: 'strerror' : is not a 
> member of 'stlp_std'
> 

You are correct that Windows CE does not supply the strerror function in 
its scaled down C runtime libraries.  To remedy this situation, we have 
actually written basic implementations of a handful of the missing CRT 
functions (including strerror) and added them to our local STLport 5.2.1 
libraries.  At some point, I intend to propose these for formal 
inclusion into STLport, but I haven't had time so far.

> 
> Even with my hack, filesystem has many more errors, looking for 
> GetCurrentDirectoryW, GetFullPathNameW, CreateHardLinkW and some others. 
>  Current directory doesn't exist in CE, which makes me think that I 
> somehow haven't really told the boost build system I'm building for CE.
> 

Even with our CRT adjustments, some Boost libraries require special 
changes to deal with ideosyncracies of the Windows CE OS (like the lack 
of a current filesystem directory).  In some cases, we have implemented 
these changes (typically for libraries we use on WinCE here) but for 
other libraries we have not yet assessed what is necessary to make the 
library function correctly on WinCE.

-Dave