Building Boost for Android from Windows

Posted on Sat 12 January 2019 in Review

Here are some up to date instructions on building static boost libraries for Android from Windows.

Step 1

Run bootstrap.bat and add the following to project-config.jam. Note androidNDKRoot points to where I've installed the NDK Bundle.

androidNDKRhoot = /Craftwork/Android/sdk/ndk-bundle ;

using clang : arm64 
:
    $(androidNDKRoot)/toolchains/llvm/prebuilt …

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Building Cmake for Android from Windows

Posted on Sat 12 January 2019 in Review

Calling this little batch file from inside a library folder which has a CMakeLists.txt has done a decent job of building some useful C++ libraries.

set android_sdk=C:\Craftwork\Android\sdk
set cmake_dir=%android_sdk%\cmake\3.10.2.4988404
set ndk_dir=%android_sdk%\ndk-bundle
set platform=16

set cxx …

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Building Intel Thread Building Blocks (TBB) for Android from Windows

Posted on Sat 12 January 2019 in Review

There not much to this beyond the official instructions. Just note that the last version on the NDK I could get this to work with is android-ndk-r17c. I believe it has something to do the the removal of GCC. Thankfully you can just download that specific version as a standalone …


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