Re: [Boost-users] [boost] [arm] Building for ARM

Uh oh... On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Antony Polukhin wrote:

2013/3/16 Michael Powell :

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Hello,

I wonder, has anyone built Boost for ARM?

Successfully build for RaspberryPi (ARM11 family).

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Specifically, we've got an ARM5 for which I want to use Boost for many of those features, a key one is Spirit2 for at least one domain-specific-language (DSL) exposure, possibly two or three.

Spirit worked well, but lexer from Boost.Spirit has some issues, to fix them you may use patch from https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/8291

Old ticket or it's been archived, moved, transferred out. Guess we'll cross whatever bridges need crossing. It finally pulled up but it was slow.

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That I can say, we're working with Mentor Graphics, Code Sourcery Code Bench for ARM for the moment. I think they've got current GCC language support through 4.7.2 if it matters.

My only questions are, how feasible a cross compile is Boost? Does the inclusion and linkage go about as smoothly as for any other ARM-destined output?

On Raspberry Pi we were using a lot of boost libraries: asio, optional, variant, lexical_cast, spirit, threads, program_options, tuples, fusion, MPL, function, smart_ptr (all of them), interprocess... All of them worked well on GCC 4.7.2.

Doubtful we'll need ASIO. We may, but I am looking into domain-specific distributed object technology at the moment. The other features, yes, yes, a thousand times yes. Probably so. I'd like to use the C++11 feature-set provided GCC is sufficiently stable with the 4.7 provision. If not, will probably see about the C++0x feature-set (same caveat). We probably will, good to know it's available and would work.

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