Re: [Boost-users] Need help with errors while building boost for clang on android NDK

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Need help with errors while building boost for clang on android NDK
From: Robert Dailey (rcdailey.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-09-26 10:37:43

Is there no possibility of getting help on this?

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 10:37 AM, Robert Dailey
<rcdailey.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I'm using NDK r11 and I'm setting up project-config.jam to build boost
> using clang + llvm STL. I'm running into a few errors that I do not
> know how to solve. I will post my config file at the bottom.
>
> First problem is that boost does not know where to find tools 'ar' and 'ranlib':
>
> clang-linux.archive
> bin.v2\libs\container\build\clang-linux-android\release\link-static\runtime-link-static\target-os-linux\threading-multi\libboost_container-clang-mt-s-1_61.a
> '"ar"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
> '"ranlib"' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
> operable program or batch file.
>
> How can I explicitly specify the NDK path to these executables?
>
> Second problem is related to some assembler stuff, I think. I get
> these errors while compiling boost thread:
>
> clang-linux.compile.asm
> bin.v2\libs\context\build\clang-linux-android\release\link-static\runtime-link-static\target-os-linux\threading-multi\asm\make_i386_ms_pe_gas.o
> libs\\context\\src\\asm\\make_i386_ms_pe_gas.asm:30:1: error: unknown directive
> .def _make_fcontext; .scl 2; .type 32; .endef
> ^
> libs\\context\\src\\asm\\make_i386_ms_pe_gas.asm:30:22: error: unknown directive
> .def _make_fcontext; .scl 2; .type 32; .endef
>                      ^
> libs\\context\\src\\asm\\make_i386_ms_pe_gas.asm:30:36: error:
> expected identifier in directive
> .def _make_fcontext; .scl 2; .type 32; .endef
>                                    ^
> libs\\context\\src\\asm\\make_i386_ms_pe_gas.asm:30:40: error: unknown directive
> .def _make_fcontext; .scl 2; .type 32; .endef
>                                        ^
> libs\\context\\src\\asm\\make_i386_ms_pe_gas.asm:136:1: error: unknown directive
> .def __exit; .scl 2; .type 32; .endef
> ^
>
> How can I solve this? I have no idea at this point.
>
> I'm invoking the build using:
>
> b2 --without-python threading=multi link=static runtime-link=static
> toolset=gcc-android target-os=linux threadapi=pthread
> --stagedir=android stage
>
> And my project-config.jam looks like:
>
> import option ;
>
> option.set keep-going : false ;
>
> androidNDKRoot = E:/android/ndk ;
> androidAbiVer = 4.9 ;
> androidPlatform = windows-x86_64 ;
>
> using clang : android :
>     $(androidNDKRoot)/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt/$(androidPlatform)/bin/clang++ :
>     <compileflags>--sysroot=$(androidNDKRoot)/platforms/android-15/arch-arm
>     <compileflags>-Os
>     <compileflags>-fno-strict-aliasing
>     <compileflags>-O2
>     <compileflags>-DNDEBUG
>     <compileflags>-g
>     <compileflags>-I$(androidNDKRoot)/sources/cxx-stl/llvm-libc++abi/libcxxabi/include
>     <compileflags>-I$(androidNDKRoot)/sources/cxx-stl/llvm-libc++/libcxx/include
>     <compileflags>-I$(androidNDKRoot)/sources/cxx-stl/llvm-libc++/libs/armeabi-v7a
>     <compileflags>-I$(androidNDKRoot)/sources/android/support/include
>     <compileflags>-DANDROID
>     <compileflags>-D__ANDROID__
>     <compileflags>-D__arm__
>     <compileflags>-D_REENTRANT
>         ;