Re: [boost] Building on OS X

From: Jesse Jones (jesjones_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-07 21:43:54

At 9:32 PM -0500 11/7/01, Beman Dawes wrote:
>At 07:51 PM 11/7/2001, Jesse Jones wrote:
>
>  >This worked for me. It looks like the thread library built OK
>  >although there were 20 or so warnings. The static regex libraries
>  >were built as well, but the shared libraries failed to build (OS X's
>  >shared library support is a bit unusual I think). The python
>  >libraries failed to build because I installed Python with Fink which
>  >puts stuff in /sw instead of /usr. But the thread library is all I'm
>  >really interested in right now so I can start wrestling with the GNU
>  >auto* tools again. :-)
>
>Jesse,
>
>We are really interested in user experience reports for the thread
>library.  That's also true of the rest of the libraries, too, but because
>of portability questions it is particularly true of threads.
>
>So please send in a report of your OS X experiences, good, bad, or
>indifferent.

I'm still trying to get my make files past automake so I don't have a 
lot to report yet. I did build the thread library with CodeWarrior 
though. If you target Mach-O (as opposed to CFM) pthreads are 
available, but the configuration headers don't catch this. I added 
the following to the metrowerks.hpp file:

#include <cstddef>              // include a light-weight header
#ifdef _BSD_PTRDIFF_T_    // check for one of the BSD Unix defines
     #define BOOST_HAS_THREADS  // if we found it assume we're targeting Mach-O
#endif

This is a little lame, but Metrowerks doesn't seem to provide a 
predefined macro to signal that Mach-O is being targeted.

   -- Jesse