[Boost-users] [Context] Building 32-bit Context?

Subject: [Boost-users] [Context] Building 32-bit Context?
From: Nat Linden (nat_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-09-20 14:56:57

Our product uses many third-party libraries, all built for 32 bits. On
a couple platforms we still support users with 32-bit systems.

We build our Boost libraries with address-model=32, which has so far
worked (for the subset of libraries we use) even on 64-bit build
systems.

Now we would like to introduce Boost.Context. However,
address-model=32 --with-context causes the Boost build to break on Mac
OS X.

Indeed, the Requirements page [0] for Boost.Context says:

"Please note that address-model=64 must be given to bjam command line
on 64bit Windows (boost-build issue)."

Does the same boost-build issue affect Mac OS X?

Is there a workaround for this boost-build issue?

I don't think we can integrate Boost.Context any time soon if it would
require converting everything to 64 bits.

[0] http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/libs/context/doc/html/context/requirements.html