I build boost for arm all the time.
I have a bash script that does this for me. I can give it to you.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vaclav Barta [mailto:vbar@comp.cz]
Sent: Sat 3/16/2013 2:01 AM
To: boost-users@lists.boost.org
Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost] [arm] Building for ARM
 
Hi,

On 03/16/13 02:24, Michael Powell wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I wonder, has anyone built Boost for ARM?
>
> 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.
I've built Boost for Android (i.e. ARM6), and I'm far from the only one 
- I've started from https://github.com/MysticTreeGames/Boost-for-Android 
, which is for an old version of Boost, but the general approach of 
keeping a set of patches removing problematic functionality (Android 
doesn't have full standard C++ library - no wide strings, no locales 
etc. - so parts of Boost depending on that have to be cut out) and 
extending Boost.Build with an Android target works across versions.

> 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.
I'm sure recent GCC helps, but I'd also check their library support.

>
> 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?
It's feasible, but I wouldn't call it smooth... OTOH it might be just my 
lack of experience - Android was the first (and so far only) ARM I tried 
to port anything to, and I haven't added a Boost target before either...

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

2013/3/16 Michael Powell :

...

Hello,

I wonder, has anyone built Boost for ARM?

Successfully build for RaspberryPi (ARM11 family).

...

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Old ticket or it's been archived, moved, transferred out.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.

...

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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