Re: [Boost-build] Help with building boost for ARM

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Help with building boost for ARM
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-06-29 15:21:29

AMDG

On 06/29/2018 08:42 AM, dbegun via Boost-build wrote:
> I need to build some of the boost libraries for ARM. I followed the instructions here: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_58_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html and I get the following error when running "b2 --toolset=gcc":
> 

  Boost 1.58 is too old and cannot auto-detect arm64.
Try updating to a more recent version or pass architecture=arm
explicitly.

> aarch64-linux-gnu-g++: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-m64’
> 
> If it means anything, before the error I get:
> Performing configuration checks
> 
>     - 32-bit                   : no  (cached)
>     - 64-bit                   : yes (cached)
>     - arm                      : no  (cached) // is this right?
> 
> And
> Building the Boost C++ Libraries.
> ...
>     - x86                      : no  (cached)
>     - arm                      : no  (cached) // ?
> > My project-config.jam has:
> using gcc : arm : aarch64-linux-gnu-g++ ; // also tried arm64, aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe