Re: [Boost-users] Mingw cross compilation

From: James Choa (triggerhappyelite_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-21 18:31:34

> Hi James,
>
> I managed to cross-compile static release builds of serialization, 
> filesystem, system, date_time, and program_options from boost 1.35.0 
> with i386-mingw32 gcc 4.3.0 (http://mingw-cross.sourceforge.net/) under 
> Fedora 8 using a three-step procedure:
> - create a user-config.jam file with content:
>       using gcc : : i386-mingw32-gcc : ;
> - run bjam (assuming you have compiled it already):
> 	bjam --user-config=user-config.jam --toolset=gcc link=static release ...
> - manually run i386-mingw32-ranlib on the generated libraries
>
> There might be a better way to do this, but at least the above worked 
> for me.

> /Mikko

Thanks! I'll give it a try