If it helps anyone - I've had great success on Windows by simply manually applying the https://github.com/MysticTreeGames/Boost-for-Android patches and compiling with Boost.Build using this user-config.jam: androidPlatform = windows ; gccVer = 4.6 ; ndkRoot = C:/Craftwork/Android/android-ndk-r8b ; using gcc : android.arm.4.6 : $(ndkRoot)/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-$(gccVer)/prebuilt/$(androidPlatform)/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-g++ : <compileflags>--sysroot=$(ndkRoot)/platforms/android-8/arch-arm <compileflags>-marm <compileflags>-Os <compileflags>-fno-strict-aliasing <compileflags>-fexceptions <compileflags>-fpic <compileflags>-fstack-protector <compileflags>-frtti <compileflags>-fno-short-enums <compileflags>-O2 <compileflags>-DNDEBUG <compileflags>-g <compileflags>-lstdc++ <compileflags>-std=gnu++0x <compileflags>-I"$(ndkRoot)/platforms/android-8/arch-arm" <compileflags>-I"$(ndkRoot)/sources/cxx-stl/gnu-libstdc++/$(gccVer)/include/" <compileflags>-I"$(ndkRoot)/sources/cxx-stl/gnu-libstdc++/$(gccVer)/libs/armeabi/include/" <compileflags>-DGLIBC <compileflags>-D_GLIBCPP_USE_WCHAR_T <compileflags>-D_GLIBCXX__PTHREADS <compileflags>-DANDROID <compileflags>-D_LITTLE_ENDIAN <archiver>$(ndkRoot)/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-$(gccVer)/prebuilt/$(androidPlatform)/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-ar <ranlib>$(ndkRoot)/toolchains/arm-linux-androideabi-$(gccVer)/prebuilt/$(androidPlatform)/bin/arm-linux-androideabi-ranlib ; Command-line: bjam --with-thread threadapi=pthread toolset=gcc-android.arm.4.6 link=static runtime-link=static target-os=linux --stagedir=android-arm