Re: [Boost-users] need help configuring Boost for CodeSourcery ARMg++ compiler

From: Rob Desbois (rob.desbois_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-02-07 10:27:07

> Looks to me as if it thinks it's trying to build a Mingwin/Cygwin DLL, which
> isn't appropriate here: you could try a native cygwin build of bjam so it's
> not assuming it's building for Windows.

I'd built bjam myself under Cygwin with the default compiler.

> Note that most Boost libraries can be treated as "just a bunch of sources"
> and built with whatever your favorite build tools are: in the case of
> Boost.Regex just build libs/regex/src/*.cpp into a shared or static library.
> There are also some sample makefiles in libs/regex/build that should be easy
> to customise if that helps.

Thanks, I've got a system built now - but I'll bear this in mind for the future.
--rob