Building Boost And Stlport On Debian Stable Against Gcc 34

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The difficult part is using the (non-default) gcc-3.4 instead of the (default) gcc (which is at version 3.3) and really getting STLport and Boost to work together. Additionally I normaly want to link statically to STLport and Boost to reduce the number of external dependencies.

Building STLport

Edit stlport/stl/_site_config.h changing the native include path defines (don't forget to remove the comments :-) )

 #undef _STLP_NATIVE_INCLUDE_PATH
 #define _STLP_NATIVE_INCLUDE_PATH ../include
 #undef _STLP_NATIVE_CPP_C_INCLUDE_PATH
 #define _STLP_NATIVE_CPP_C_INCLUDE_PATH _STLP_NATIVE_INCLUDE_PATH/c++/__GNUC__.__GNUC_MINOR__
 #undef _STLP_NATIVE_C_INCLUDE_PATH
 #define _STLP_NATIVE_C_INCLUDE_PATH _STLP_NATIVE_INCLUDE_PATH
 #undef _STLP_NATIVE_CPP_RUNTIME_INCLUDE_PATH
 #define _STLP_NATIVE_CPP_RUNTIME_INCLUDE_PATH _STLP_NATIVE_CPP_C_INCLUDE_PATH

build STLport with

 # make -C build/lib -f gcc.mak CC=gcc-3.4 CXX=g++-3.4 all release-static dbg-static stldbg-static
 # make -C build/lib -f gcc.mak CC=gcc-3.4 CXX=g++-3.4 install

copy the stlport and the lib directories to some globally accessible place on the system:

 # sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/STLport-5/lib
 # sudo cp -r stlport /usr/local/STLport-5
 # sudo cp -r lib /usr/local/STLport-5/lib/dynamic
 # sudo cp $(find -name "*.a") /usr/local/STLport-5/lib

When linking against this Version of STLport, you need to add /usr/local/STLport-5 to the front of the include and library path (-I and -L options)

Building Boost

Building boost is now almost straight forward. Only the multithreading enabled and static version is built since thats the only version of the STLport lib built above (I have not found out how to build several versions of STLport with and without mt etc.)

 # bjam \
       "-sTOOLS=gcc-stlport" \
       "-sBUILD=debug release <threading>multi <runtime-link>static" \
       "-sSTLPORT_5_PATH=/usr/local/STLport-5" \
       "-sSTLPORT_VERSION=5" \
       "-sGXX=g++-3.4" \
       "-sGCC=gcc-3.4" \
           stage

Now boost can be copied to some central location:

 # sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/Boost/lib/dynamic
 # sudo cp -d boost stage/lib/*.a /usr/local/Boost/lib
 # sudo cp -d boost stage/lib/*.so* /usr/local/Boost/lib/dynamic

Using the libraries

Of course you have to add the correct include/libarary dirs. However there are some other pitfalls:

I have to define _REENTRANT when using STLport, otherwise all the symbols will reside in the wrong namespace. This forces me to link against -lpthread
I have problems building with -ansi when using int64_t from cstdint (which is valid even under -ansi though long long is not)