Re: [Boost-users] Re: Help: Building Boost with Different Compiler Options

From: Paul Dubuc (pdubuc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-30 15:15:15

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Paul Dubuc wrote:
> 
>>
>> David Abrahams wrote:
>>
>>> Paul Dubuc wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm trying to build Boost 1.32 on Solaris 8 (SPARC) with GCC 3.3.4.  
>>>> I want to build a 64-bit version of the libraries and this requires 
>>>> pasing the -m64 option to the compiler.  How do I tell bjam to do this?
>>>>
>>>> I've tried:
>>>>
>>>> export TOOLSET_OPT="-sGCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY=${GCCDIR} 
>>>> -exec-prefix=${PWD}/${GCCVERSION}/64 \"\"-sGXX=g++ -m64\"\" 
>>>> \"\"-sGCC=gcc -m64\"\""
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> bjam ${TOOLSET_OPT}  \
>>>>     -sTOOLS=${TOOLSET} \
>>>>     --prefix=${PWD}/.. \
>>>>     --with-python-root=/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris8 \
>>>>     install
>>>>
>>>> It dosn't seem to work.  I still get 32-bit libraries.
>>>>
>>>> Help would be appreciated,  Thanks.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Please ignore my other reply to this.  Add 
>>> "-sBUILD=<address-model>64" to your command-line.
>>
>>
>>
>> This didn't work.  I still get 32-bit libraries and binaries.  (Same 
>> result with the first suggestion (-sCFLAGS=-m64).  Any other  ideas?
> 
> 
> Dave forgot one important aspect. You need to also specify the 
> architecture when using either the instruction-set or address-model 
> options. Hence you should add...
> 
>     '-sBUILD=<architecture>sparc <address-model>64'
> 
> To get the "-m64" options in there.

Thanks!  This works (except for the python library, which I don't need in 64-bit).

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Paul M. Dubuc