Mingw cross compilation

[James Choa]

Hello everyone,
    Is there anyway for me to create a cross compilation version of the
boost libraries? I have already compiled the linux version of the boost
libraries and now I would like to compile a windows version of it. I'm
using Fedora 8 with i386-mingw32 as my cross compiler (gcc 4.2.1). Any
help would be greatly appreciated :)

--James Choa
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[Mikko Vainio]

Hi James,

I managed to cross-compile static release builds of serialization,
filesystem, system, date_time, and program_options from boost 1.35.0
with i386-mingw32 gcc 4.3.0 (http://mingw-cross.sourceforge.net/) under
Fedora 8 using a three-step procedure:
- create a user-config.jam file with content:
      using gcc : : i386-mingw32-gcc : ;
- run bjam (assuming you have compiled it already):
        bjam --user-config=user-config.jam --toolset=gcc link=static release ...
- manually run i386-mingw32-ranlib on the generated libraries

There might be a better way to do this, but at least the above worked
for me.

/Mikko

James Choa wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>     Is there anyway for me to create a cross compilation version of the
> boost libraries? I have already compiled the linux version of the boost
> libraries and now I would like to compile a windows version of it. I'm
> using Fedora 8 with i386-mingw32 as my cross compiler (gcc 4.2.1). Any
> help would be greatly appreciated :)
>
> --James Choa
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[James Choa]

> Hi James,
>
> I managed to cross-compile static release builds of serialization,
> filesystem, system, date_time, and program_options from boost 1.35.0
> with i386-mingw32 gcc 4.3.0 (http://mingw-cross.sourceforge.net/) under
> Fedora 8 using a three-step procedure:
> - create a user-config.jam file with content:
>       using gcc : : i386-mingw32-gcc : ;
> - run bjam (assuming you have compiled it already):
> bjam --user-config=user-config.jam --toolset=gcc link=static release ...
> - manually run i386-mingw32-ranlib on the generated libraries
>
> There might be a better way to do this, but at least the above worked
> for me.

> /Mikko

Thanks! I'll give it a try

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[James Choa]

James Choa wrote:

>> Hi James,
>>
>> I managed to cross-compile static release builds of serialization,
>> filesystem, system, date_time, and program_options from boost 1.35.0
>> with i386-mingw32 gcc 4.3.0 (http://mingw-cross.sourceforge.net/)
>> under Fedora 8 using a three-step procedure:
>> - create a user-config.jam file with content:
>>       using gcc : : i386-mingw32-gcc : ;
>> - run bjam (assuming you have compiled it already):
>>     bjam --user-config=user-config.jam --toolset=gcc link=static
>> release ...
>> - manually run i386-mingw32-ranlib on the generated libraries
>>
>> There might be a better way to do this, but at least the above worked
>> for me.
>
>> /Mikko
>
> Thanks! I'll give it a try
>
>

Thanks for the help, I got it to compile :)
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