Time for action – prebuilding Boost static library

Let's prebuild Boost for Android as a static library with the following steps:

1. Download Boost from http://www.boost.org/ (Version 1.55.0, in this book). Unzip the archive into ${ANDROID_NDK}/sources. Name the directory boost.

   Open a command line window and go to the boost directory. Launch bootstrap.bat on Windows or ./bootstrap.sh on Linux and Mac OS X to build b2. This program, previously named BJam, is a custom building tool similar to Make.

   Note

   Boost 1.55.0 archive is provided with this book in the Libraries/boost directory.

   Change the NDK build command in DroidBlaster to generate verbose compilation logs. To do so, in Eclipse Project properties, navigate to the C/C++ Build section. There, you should see the following build command: ndk-build NDK_DEBUG=1. Change it to build NDK_DEBUG=0 V=1 to compile in release mode with verbose logs.

2. Rebuild DroidBlaster (you might need to clean your project first). If you look, for example...