Re: [Boost-users] Building boost 3.4 with STLPort on Windows platform

From: Arthur Carlsson (arthur_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-21 07:26:21

I'm using Cygwin and it has been a real pain for me to get it to work. To be
able to compile Boost 1.34 with STLport you first need to compile STLport
(duh...). I use that standard ./configure script and "make -f
gcc.makinstall-shared". No extra arguments or anything. With cygwin
you need to
change the names of the .a-files created from libstlport*.5.1.dll.a to
libstlport*.5.1.a as boost requires the dll-libs, not the static ones
(you'll get alot of unresolved externals otherwise...).

Then in user-config.jam (which is created from ./configure script or you can
create it by hand in the boost root directory) you enter the following:

# STLport configuration
using stlport : 5.1.3 : <STLport root>/stlport <STLport root>/lib ;

Also, if you are using Cygwin, you also need to change the "using gcc ;"
line to "using gcc : : : <cxxflags>-D_REENTRANT ;" or boost will choose the
the wrong namespace for stlport and you get alot of compiling errors.

Then it's time to invoke the bjam command line with a few extra arguments
like so:
bjam.exe --user-config=user-config.jam stdlib=stlport
Notice the "stdlib=stlport" argument.

I still haven't successfully compile all of boost like this, I still have
two issues.
1. In the serialization library I get errors that boost is unable to find
wcslen() and wctomb() functions in the stlport namespace. I haven't looked
into it that much as I don't need to use them.
2. The most annoying one. I'm note sure if this is a boost issue or a cygwin
issue but when I run the install stage with bjam it eats up about 400 mb
memory (I only have 512 mb memory on my computer..) which makes the whole
installation process take about 2-3 days instead of perhaps 10 minutes.. :P
Also, sometimes it crashes in the middle of the process and I have to
manually start the installation process again. As I said, I don't know if
this is due to some error in cygwin or in bjam...

Perhaps I'll write a guide on compiling stlport with boost in Cygwin and
post it on my site. In that case, I'll let you know... :)

Regards.
- Arthur

On 5/21/07, Flex Ferrum <flex_ferrum_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> Hello all.
>
> Can anybody tell me how to build boost 1.34 with STLPort on Windows
> platform? Documentation and searching over the boost.org tells nothing
> about this.
>
>
> --
> Best regards
> Flex Ferrum
>
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