Re: [boost] threads: linking on OSX

Subject: Re: [boost] threads: linking on OSX
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-10-02 20:13:54

AMDG

David M. Cotter wrote:
> I followed the instructions from here:
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#prepare-to-use-a-boost-library-binary 
>
>
> and it spent a bunch of time compiling everything.  no errors.  yay.
>
> so then i go to link my program, i added <boost 
> dir>/stage/lib/libboost_thread.a to my project, cuz that's how you 
> static link, right?  where <boost dir> is the location of the boost 
> installation
>
> but it says:
>
> <boost 
> dir>/bin.v2/libs/thread/build/darwin-4.2.1/release/threading-multi/libboost_thread.dylib, 
> file is not of required architecture
>
> Undefined symbols:
>     <long list of all the boost symbols i used>
>
> interesting that even by adding the .a file, it went and found the 
> dylib?  is that normal?  anyway, wrong architecture??  how do i make 
> it build universal?  (PPC plus intel?  

bjam ... architecture=combined
?

> and what's with the missing symbols?

You can ignore these errors.  They should go away with
the architecture problem.

> i'm not really a n00b, i just appear to be one today.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe