Re: [Boost-users] Building boost 1.33.1 with Comeau 4.3.3

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-01-02 00:16:08

Pooyan McSporran wrote:
> I'm having problems trying to build boost 1.33.1 with comeau 4.3.3 on
> Linux.

<snip ..>

> **** wide char i/o not supported by libcomo standard library ****
> **** skipping build of
> <@boost!libs!serialization!build>libboost_wserialization.a; toolset=

<etc...>

> Am I doing something stupid?  For what it's worth, I've been using
> boost with gcc for quite some time now with no problems, but decided
> to give it a try with comeau, but no luck yet.

Speaking for the serialization library - I've been unable to build the wide 
character
version of the the archives with the como implementation of the standard 
library. So
the Jamfile skips this library and emits the above message.

> I have searched online for solutions to this, but couldn't find any
> solutions that work for me

You could tweak the Jamfile to not skip build of the wide char libraries
and thier corresponding tests.  When I do this I get some problems
I'm not able to solve.  If you do this and are able to solve the
problems, let me know and we'll roll in the fixes.

BTW, I've tested comeau 4.3.3 on windows/XP with VC 7.1 backend.
However, to do this I had to comment out part of the test library to
avoid a linking problem.

Robert Ramey