Re: [Boost-build] Need some help running library tests

From: Edward Diener (eldiener_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-07-31 00:42:16

On 7/30/2019 6:14 PM, Edward Diener via Boost-build wrote:
> On 7/30/2019 10:00 AM, Maarten Verhage via Boost-build wrote:
>> Dear Boost.Build experts,
>>
>> I do have Boost 1.69 and was able to build boost from the sources with
>> Mingw-w64 gcc 8.1 on Windows 7. That was for boost itself, but now I 
>> need to
>> build the tests for the Boost library Spirit (the parser). I cannot 
>> get this
>> to work. To be more precise it's the Github develop version of that 
>> library.
> 
> What does building Boost in version 1.69 using gcc-8.1 have to do with 
> running the latest Spirit 'develop branch tests using gcc-8.1 ?
> 
> I have successfully run the latest Spirit 'develop' branch tests using 
> mingw-w64/gcc-8.1 on Windows 10, both in 32-bit and 64-bit mode. All 
> tests pass.
> 
> Here are the things I think you need to do to do this:
> 
> 1) Get the latest Boost from Github into a directory and then run these 
> comamnds from that directory:
> 2) git checkout develop
> 3) git pull
> 4) get submodule update --init
> 5) git submodule foreach --recursive git checkout develop
> 6) git submodule foreach --recursive git pull
> 7) ./bootstrap.bat to create the latest b2
> 8) ./b2 headers
> 10) cd to the Spirit test directory
> 11) ../../../b2 toolset=gcc-8.1 etc.
> 
> The last step needs an appropriate entry for the gcc-8.1 toolset in your 
> user-config.jam. My user-config.jam entry for running gcc-8.1 in 32-bit 
> mode is:
> 
> using gcc : 8.1 :
>  Â Â Â  "E:/programming/bat/cp_gcc81.bat" :
>  Â Â Â  <cxxflags>-Wno-unused-local-typedefs
>  Â Â Â  <cxxflags>-ftrack-macro-expansion=0
>  Â Â Â  <cxxflags>-Wno-unused-variable
>  Â Â Â  <cxxflags>-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1
> 
> <root>"C:/Utilities/mingw-w64/i686-8.1.0-posix-dwarf-rt_v6-rev0/mingw32" ;

Should be:

using gcc : 8.1 :
     "$(TSE_BATCH_DRIVE)/programming/bat/cp_gcc81.bat" :
     <cxxflags>-Wno-unused-local-typedefs
     <cxxflags>-ftrack-macro-expansion=0
     <cxxflags>-Wno-unused-variable
     <cxxflags>-D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=1
 
<root>"$(TSE_MINGW64_DRIVE)/Utilities/mingw-w64/i686-8.1.0-posix-dwarf-rt_v6-rev0/mingw32" 

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