Re: [Boost-users] Cross compiling

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-06 18:55:45

David Charles Todd <dtodd_at_[hidden]> writes:

> We're using boost, and I'm tasked with getting it working on an embedded 
> board, via BlueCat linux.
>
> The BlueCat envorinment is its own little world, meant to make it 
> exceptionally easy to build things for the target. Because of this, they 
> violate a few expectations for a cross-compile environment. One of these 
> is that their compiler looks for headers in the wrong place for boost.
>
> What I am trying to figure out is how to tell the boost build process to 
> append a path onto the list of include search paths.
>
> setting HDRS, either in the environment or on the bjam invocation line 
> doesn't seem to help. I guess it's not propagating down?

Add

   "-sBUILD=<include>/whatever/path/you/want/appended"

to your bjam command line.

HTH,

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com