Re: [Boost-users] Mingw64 Boost Threads Build

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Mingw64 Boost Threads Build
From: Jim Bell (Jim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-31 10:34:32

I have a trunk regression-test platform that runs Mingw64 on Win7-64.
It's experimental and isn't in the regression matrix right now, but
works as well as any MinGW platform (or pretty close). I use GCC 4.6
from here
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win64/Personal%20Builds/rubenvb/>.
CygWin's not installed on this machine.

I've attached my complete set of patches. A little cryptic (and patches
a pretty recent trunk revision), but should give you a set of changes
that ought to get you close.

You should be able to use the pre-built bjam (32-bit).
<http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#get-bjam>
boostrap.bat needs a little hacking for gcc.

Good luck!
-Jim

On 1:59 PM, Dustin T. Clifford wrote:
>
> Good Afternoon,
>
>  
>
> We have been using boost-threads for our native APIs and, thus far,
> Boost has been a godsend! We had a recent request to build a 64-bit
> version of this API. To accomplish this we have attempted to build
> using MinGW64. Unfortunately, I have had zero luck getting
> boost-threads to build. I can build the 32-bit address model without a
> problem but 64-bit continues to elude me.
>
>  
>
> I first tried Boost 1.35.0 and have now moved on to 1.45.0. I believe
> that the environment is set up correctly (see below). This build is
> being performed on a Windows 7 64-bit using MinGW64 from Cygwin.
>
>  
>
>     export CC=x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc.exe
>
>     export CXX=x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++.exe
>
>     export LD=x86_64-w64-mingw32-ld.exe
>
>  
>
> I have, also, modified my PATH to use the appropriate 64-bit bintools
> and aliased gcc, g++ and ld to the 64-bit MinGW64 compilers and linkers.
>
>  
>
> To build Boost I have used the following with no success.
>
>  
>
>    boostrap.sh  address-model=64 --prefix=<install>
> --with-libraries=thread; bjam --a install;
>
>    boostrap.sh  --prefix=<install> --with-libraries=thread; bjam --a
> address-model=64 install;
>
>    boostrap.sh  --prefix=<install> --with-libraries=thread; bjam --a
> install;
>
>  
>
> The last build attempt succeeds but appears to have built 32-bit
> binaries. The previous two fail in building boost-threads complaining
> that 'address-model-64' is not found for certain build artifacts.  I
> have, also, tried the above with a prebuilt bjam with the same results.
>
>  
>
> I have tried much more than what I have cited here (including MSVC
> builds) with no success (some built but resulted in 32-bit binaries).
> I have scoured Google and found many talking about this but most
> either had no resolution or contained instructions that conflicted or
> made no sense. Does anybody have any insight into how I can produce a
> 64-bit boost-threads archive? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>  
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Dustin
>
>  
>
> P.S. If I have missed any information or you need more (build logs are
> too big to attach), please, let me know.
>
>  
>