Re: [Boost-users] Newbie help please - trying to build for QNX6

From: Jim Douglas (jim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-29 14:21:02

"Rene Rivera" <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:433C2972.7030208_at_redshift-software.com...
> Jim Douglas wrote:
>> "Rene Rivera" <grafik.list_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
>> news:433C0E7C.2060106_at_redshift-software.com...
>>
>>>Jim Douglas wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>(New to Boost & bjam - not QNX)
>>>>
>>>>I am trying to build the Boost libs for QNX 6.3.0 on both the Windows
>>>>hosted
>>>>and QNX hosted development platforms using the gcc tools.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>>>1. If you are going to attempt a cross-platform build with BBv1 then you
>>>will have to create a new toolset specifically for this.
>>
>> Not a good idea. What about BBv2? Does it potentially offer a solution?
>
> Not immediately, similar changes that got done to BBv1 for supporting
> QCC would need to go into the BBv2 gcc toolset.

OK, so I will forget about cross development for now and concentrate on 
getting the libs to build on the self (QNX)-hosted development system as 
that is very similar to Linux. The final results can be copied to Windows 
for incorporation there as required.

>>>2. QNX is not one of the platforms Boost supports, i.e. no one builds
>>>and tests on it, so you will get build errors even though it uses GCC
>>>3.3.1 and Dinkumware 4.0.2.
>>
>> Hmm... I might consider offering my services as a QNX tester as there is
>> some good timesaving stuff here and I could get a few other QNX 
>> programmers
>> interested.
>
> That would be awesome!

Let's start off down that path and see how far we get. Given my inexperience 
it would be useful to have a mentor on hand for a little while until I get 
up to speed. Please advise how best to proceed.

>>>3. There are some improvements for QNX in the RC_1_33_0 branch in CVS
>>>you will want. Like some code config, build, and bjam changes.
>>
>> I am using version 1.33.0 which I assume supercedes the branch 
>> RC_1_33_0 -
>> release candidate I assume? Please correct me if I am wrong.
>
> You are wrong :-) It's a very badly named branch name. The branch
> actually represents the ongoing work on the 1.33.x version of Boost, and
> will become 1.33.1 soon. We really should have picked the better
> BOOST_1_33 name, but oh well to late now :-\

Noted.

Jim
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