Problem Building boost for cygwin g++ with stlport on WinXP

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Markus Ruettimann

25 Dec 2003 25 Dec '03

5:35 p.m.

Hi all I'm an enthusiastic user of boost since quite a long time. I used MSVC6.0 so far. How ever, I changed to cygwin g++ 3.3.1 for project reasons. I have succesfuly built the latest STLPort version (4.6) and I also use it successfully. How ever, I am not able to build the toolset gcc-stlport. There are errors in the threadding lib and elsewhere, and such ugly things as "to long path names" errors in the console. Does anybody know how to build this toolset and link them together as one static lib? I use boost-1.30.2 with cygwin g++ 3.3.1 on winXP professional. PS: When I build the bjam stuff, what builds without any errors, it uses the MSVC compiler (the output it creates looks like this). Is this a problem? Thanks for your help Markus. -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

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David Abrahams

25 Dec 25 Dec

10:29 p.m.

New subject: Problem Building boost for cygwin g++ with stlport on WinXP

Markus Ruettimann writes:

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Hi all I'm an enthusiastic user of boost since quite a long time. I used MSVC6.0 so far. How ever, I changed to cygwin g++ 3.3.1 for project reasons. I have succesfuly built the latest STLPort version (4.6) and I also use it successfully.

How ever, I am not able to build the toolset gcc-stlport. There are errors in the threadding lib and elsewhere, and such ugly things as "to long path names" errors in the console.

Can you please post the exact command you're using to build with, and a few of the error messages?

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Does anybody know how to build this toolset and link them together as one static lib?

I use boost-1.30.2 with cygwin g++ 3.3.1 on winXP professional.

PS: When I build the bjam stuff, what builds without any errors, it uses the MSVC compiler (the output it creates looks like this).

Like what?

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Is this a problem?

It's fine to build bjam with MSVC as long as you're using it from a windows command-prompt. If you intend to build from a Cygwin bash command-prompt, you need to build bjam from within Cygwin. That said, I'm not sure why everyone seems to want to rebuild bjam when they could download prebuilt binaries. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com

Markus Ruettimann

26 Dec 26 Dec

10:06 a.m.

New subject: Problem Building boost for cygwin g++ with stlport on WinXP

Hi Dave, Sorry for the incomplete report. STLPort was built with the gcc-cygwin.mak makefile. I have built the bjam and boost from within the console of winXP. I realy looked for the prebuilt bjam.exe, could not find it anywhere :-/ The build vommand is bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc-stlport" "-sSTLPORT_ROOT=C:\develop\cpp\STLport-4.6" > buildResult.txt I snipped some of the errors, one of the "File or Path name too long" and the other "Thread support is unavailible" These are the only kind of errors i get. I have errors such as: --- snip --- Assembler messages: FATAL: can't create libs\regex\build\bin\libboost_regex.lib\gcc-stlport\release\runtime-link-dynamic\stlport-anachronism s-on\stlport-cstd-namespace-std\stlport-debug-alloc-off\stlport-iostream-on\stlport-version-4.5.3\c_regex_traits_common. obj: File or path name too long --- snip --- In file included from libs/thread/src/condition.cpp:12: C:/develop/cpp/boost-1.30.2/boost/thread/condition.hpp:17:5: #error Thread support is unavailable! In file included from libs/thread/src/condition.cpp:14: --- snip --- Thanks very much for your effort. Markus On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 17:29:35 -0500, David Abrahams wrote:

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Markus Ruettimann writes:

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Hi all I'm an enthusiastic user of boost since quite a long time. I used MSVC6.0 so far. How ever, I changed to cygwin g++ 3.3.1 for project reasons. I have succesfuly built the latest STLPort version (4.6) and I also use it successfully.

How ever, I am not able to build the toolset gcc-stlport. There are errors in the threadding lib and elsewhere, and such ugly things as "to long path names" errors in the console.

Can you please post the exact command you're using to build with, and a few of the error messages?

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Does anybody know how to build this toolset and link them together as one static lib?

I use boost-1.30.2 with cygwin g++ 3.3.1 on winXP professional.

PS: When I build the bjam stuff, what builds without any errors, it uses the MSVC compiler (the output it creates looks like this).

Like what?

...
Is this a problem?

It's fine to build bjam with MSVC as long as you're using it from a windows command-prompt. If you intend to build from a Cygwin bash command-prompt, you need to build bjam from within Cygwin.

That said, I'm not sure why everyone seems to want to rebuild bjam when they could download prebuilt binaries.

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David Abrahams

6 Jan 6 Jan

3:06 p.m.

New subject: Problem Building boost for cygwin g++ with stlport on WinXP

Markus Ruettimann writes:

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Hi Dave, Sorry for the incomplete report. STLPort was built with the gcc-cygwin.mak makefile. I have built the bjam and boost from within the console of winXP. I realy looked for the prebuilt bjam.exe, could not find it anywhere :-/

Follow the links from http://www.boost.org ("Build") to http://www.boost.org/tools/build/index.html ("Pre-Builts are available from SourceForge") to http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586

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The build vommand is bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc-stlport" "-sSTLPORT_ROOT=C:\develop\cpp\STLport-4.6"

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buildResult.txt

I snipped some of the errors, one of the "File or Path name too long" and the other "Thread support is unavailible" These are the only kind of errors i get.

I have errors such as: --- snip ---

Assembler messages: FATAL: can't create libs\regex\build\bin\libboost_regex.lib\gcc-stlport\release\runtime-link-dynamic\stlport-anachronism s-on\stlport-cstd-namespace-std\stlport-debug-alloc-off\stlport-iostream-on\stlport-version-4.5.3\c_regex_traits_common. obj: File or path name too long

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Oh, sorry. I think the current CVS version of Boost drastically shortens those path names. If you can't upgrade, I'd try a cygwin build of bjam from within the cygwin bash shell instead. It doesn't suffer the same path limitations (I think). HTH, -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com

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