Re: [jamboost] re: Darwin BBv2 CVS library suffix bug

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-17 09:45:04

On Thursday 16 June 2005 21:59, Mat Marcus wrote:

> So just to be clear, to the
> best of my understanding it is XCode, not OSX/darwin/gcc that
> disallows libraries from ending in 1.33.0--static libs must end in .a
> and shared libs in .dylib .

Ok, understood.

> > Probably, we should be adding the suffix only when building Boost
> > itself for install (that is via "bjam stage" or "bjam install" in
> > Boost root), and not in any other case?
>
> This sounds promising. 

I'll try to implement this on Monday, then.

> Life for OSX boost users may also be 
> complicated by the new "Universal" binary format. That is, developers
> will need to produce applications that will run on both Intel and PPC
> macs. So a boost install could involve building and installing both
> Intel and PowerPC versions of the libraries. 

Hmm.. does passing "cxxflags="-arch i386 -arch ppc" work at the moment?

> For shared libraries, I 
> believe that these can be bundled together in a OSX/darwin-specific
> entity known as a framework. 

I still have very vague idea what's framework is... Guess I'll print some 
Apple docs now.

- Volodya

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Vladimir Prus
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