Wt

Hi everyone. I am new to Wt. I have had some CMake experiece in the past, but have learned a lot in the past couple of days.

My project is to cross compile and use Wt on an ARM processor with a 'custom' Linux OS. I have cross compiled Boost and installed it in a 'non-standard' location, so it does not interfere with the 'native' boost installation.

While running CMake I use the CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE variable (on the command line) to set up the cross compiler.

In that file I set WT_BOOST_DISCOVERY to FALSE, BOOST_VERSION to 1_53 and BOOST_DIR to my custom installed boost library (/home/...blah..blah..blah/Boost/install).

When I run CMAKE I get:

--- Looking for pthread_create in pthread - found

--- Found Threads: TRUE

CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:333 (MESSAGE):

Could not find a boost installation in

/home/...blah..blah..blah/Boost/install.

One question is the CMake variable BOOST_PREFIX does not seem to do anything. How does it differ from BOOST_DIR. (When I set BOOST_PREFIX, the error message tells me it can't find the libary in the host's normal libary path.) A second question is the format of the BOOST_VERSION CMake variable. The help message says 1_53, but looking at the CMake file supplied with Wt, I get the impression that it might really want 1.53 (or should I use 1_53_0 or 1.52.0?)

Also, given that I am using the arm-xilinx-linux-gnueabi compiler, is that the correct value for BOOST_COMPILER?

I have put some CMake 'message' commands in the various Wt CMake files and believe that even my WT_BOOST_DISCOVERY doesn't seem to be working properly as the WtFindBoost-vintage.txt file seems to be included in the CMake, not the WtFindBoost-cmake.txt.

Could somebody give me some suggestions about getting this straightened out.

BTW, I can build Wt for the native _x86 Linux host machine; it just does not work for cross compiling