Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] mingw-cross-env-2.9: DEbian Squeeze AMD65: Failed to build package boost!

[Tony Theodore]

2009/11/10 Tony Theodore <address@hidden>:
> 2009/11/10 Joost Kraaijeveld <address@hidden>:
>> On Tue, 2009-11-10 at 19:06 +1100, Tony Theodore wrote:
>>> 2009/11/10 Joost Kraaijeveld <address@hidden>:
>>> The error: unrecognized command line option "-mthreads" is being
>>> thrown by the linux gcc, as this option only applies to the mingw
>>> compiler.
>> But shouldn't Boost be compiled with the mingw cross compiler, which
>> should recognise "-mthreads" I assume?
>
> Yes, that's what should be happening (using the mingw cross compiler).
> The auto-detection seems to be mixing up the system gcc with the cross
> compiler, and boost doesn't use ./configure, so you have to figure out
> how boost jam works (not that configure is any easier, just more
> familiar). The log files are almost identical and there's nothing in
> tools/jam/src/build.sh that refers to architecture. A tricky one.

I just installed a minimal Squeeze-amd64 (with pre-requisites) in a vm
and gcc/boost build successfully. That's against the latest dev
version, I'll try the 2.9 release next.

Tony