[Boost-users] Testers required
Hi, There is a big need in testers that have access to exotic platforms(zArch, MIPS) and compilers (Cray, IBM xlc ...). Could you please run `b2` in `boost/libs/type_index/test` and report results. This will help to test Boost.TypeIndex library and other libraries that depend on `demangle.hpp` I'll appreciate any help. Thanks in advance! -- Best regards, Antony Polukhin
There is a big need in testers that have access to exotic platforms(zArch, MIPS) and compilers (Cray, IBM xlc ...).
it should be possible to use a cross-compiler and test via qemu if the hardware is not easy to access ... a few years ago i used such at toolchain in order to test altivec/neon code without having access to ppc or arm hardware ... it basically boils down to point the toolchain to the cross-compiler and to run the testsuite via qemu. this was pretty straight-forward with cmake though i'm not familiar enough with bjam to say it this can easily be integrated ... emdebian seems to provide quite binaries of cross-compilers for quite some architectures ... so maybe emulating exotic architectures is easier to achieve than getting access to the hardware cheers, tim
2014-09-06 0:48 GMT+04:00 Tim Blechmann
There is a big need in testers that have access to exotic platforms(zArch, MIPS) and compilers (Cray, IBM xlc ...).
it should be possible to use a cross-compiler and test via qemu if the hardware is not easy to access ... a few years ago i used such at toolchain in order to test altivec/neon code without having access to ppc or arm hardware ...
it basically boils down to point the toolchain to the cross-compiler and to run the testsuite via qemu. this was pretty straight-forward with cmake though i'm not familiar enough with bjam to say it this can easily be integrated ...
emdebian seems to provide quite binaries of cross-compilers for quite some architectures ... so maybe emulating exotic architectures is easier to achieve than getting access to the hardware
cheers, tim
I've been doing some testing with RaspberryPi and Android not so long ago. It takes a lot of time to setup the toolchain and virtual machine + bjam does not like me (possibly that's because I do not know Python) + some of the compilers are hard to get. So configuring multiple toolsets will consume unreasonable amount of time. That's why I'm asking for help from those who have ready-to-use toolsets. -- Best regards, Antony Polukhin
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