Re: [Boost-users] Compile boost for arm-eabi

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Compile boost for arm-eabi
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-02-28 04:43:35

Lars Viklund wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 08:31:10AM +0000, Carlos wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> How I could compile boost for another arquitecture?
>> I thougth I have done it right, but when compiling my program with a static
>> link to a boost library I'm getting this message:
>> 
>> I'm getting around this problem and I found that it might be because I don't
>> compile boost in the right way.
>> Any ideias how I do that?
> 
> This is your third post with the _exact_ same contents.
> If you did not get any reply the first time, it tends to be because
> either no-one knows, no-one cares, or (most likely), you did not provide
> enough information and no-one can be bothered to try to extract the
> information from you.
> 
> Try providing
> - the bjam command you used,
> - any modifications to user-config.jam you use,
> - maybe the top of the output of bjam --debug-configuration,
> - maybe talk a bit about what tools (ar, ld, etc.) one normally uses for
>   your target platform,
> - and more.

In addition to that, try running:

        arm-none-linux-gnueabi-ranlib /usr/local/boost_1_42_0/lib/libboost_system.a

and see if that improves that. But Lars is absolutely right -- you need to provide enough
information to enable at least some approach except for telepathy.

Also, I STRONGLY suggest you do NOT install ARM builds of Boost to a directory named
/usr/local/. This is a very reliably way to confuse native and arm builds, with the
obvious havoc as result. You seem to be using Sourcery G++ Lite? Then please take a
look at

    /home/carlos/Arm/arm-2009q3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/libc

This is so called 'sysroot'. Please copy it to a different place, e.g.:

    cp -r /home/carlos/Arm/arm-2009q3/arm-none-linux-gnueabi/libc /home/carlos/Arm/sysroot

and use /home/carlos/Arm/sysroot as --prefix parameter to EVERYTHING you built.

- Volodya