I've just begun to play with boost for usage in a making my own GUI for my PDA (SimPAD), using AGG to render the widgets and Boost for the toolkit-type libraries (in place of the nice-but-GPLed Qt from trolltech). My question for you guys is this:

1) Is it possible to specify an abritray cross compiler for boost? - my build machine: Mandrake Linux 10.0 - cross compiler: gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) - installed in /opt/Embedix/tools/bin/arm-linux-* 2) Is there already a predefined cross-compiler "target" for jam?

Or maybe somebody understands what i need to do to get it crosscompiled, and can answer the question even if im not *asking* the right questions. :-) Any help is welcome.. Thanks!

I don't know about Boost's cross-compilation support, but if you want to cross-configure and cross-compile Linux software packages, you might want to check out the Scratchbox toolkit at http://scratchbox.org/ . I compiled Boost.Jam for Scratchbox and using it built Boost 1.31.0 for the ARM/glibc target. It skipped Boost.Python because Scratchbox doesn't include Python. I got the following results: ...failed updating 14 targets... ...skipped 6 targets... ...updated 2893 targets... After that I built the date_time tests which all passed. Dunno what to make out of the "failed updating" messages--perhaps something to do with skipping Python? (See http://scratchbox.org/contact/ for non-Boost-specific replies.) timo