How to use the boost library (including shared_ptr) with the Android NDK and STLport

Question

This is more of an answer than a question, because I\'ve figured it out, at least as far as cleanly compiling the library. The main issue for me was to get shared_ptr workin

Answer 1

The current version of Android NDK (r9) now supports exceptions.

The capabilities of the various runtimes vary. See this table:

          C++       C++   Standard
          Exceptions  RTTI  Library
system    no           no        no
gabi++   yes          yes        no
stlport  yes          yes       yes
gnustl   yes          yes       yes

stlport can get used in non-GPL binarys. It's still flagged as experimantal, but you can use it with clang and gcc.

See http://developer.android.com/tools/sdk/ndk/