Re: [Boost-build] having trouble building universal binaries for Mac OSX

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] having trouble building universal binaries for Mac OSX
From: Ian Emmons (iemmons_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-02-06 20:04:08

Eric,

As Volodya has mentioned, "architecture=combined" is great if all you  
want is i386 and ppc, but if you want the 64-bit versions as well,  
then a variation on your user-config.jam trick will work.  I use this:

using darwin
    :  4.0.1 # this version number is probably unnecessary
    :  # omitted command
    :  <cflags>"-arch x86_64 -arch i386 -arch ppc64 -arch ppc"
       <cxxflags>"-arch x86_64 -arch i386 -arch ppc64 -arch ppc"
       <linkflags>"-arch x86_64 -arch i386 -arch ppc64 -arch ppc"
    ;

(Apparently, the Darwin toolset doesn't support the <compileflags>  
feature.)

Cheers,

Ian

On Feb 6, 2009, at 3:18 PM, Eric Johnson wrote:

Hi All,
    I have been having a difficult time trying to build universal (ppc  
and i386) libraries.  I've tried various ways that I've seen described  
on the web, but none of them seem to work.  A recent post on the Boost- 
users mailing list looked promising, but didn't work for me either.   
My machine is an Intel one running OSX 10.5.6.  Building boost 1.37.0  
libraries using bjam 03.1.17.  Here's what I tried:

bjam --toolset=darwin --architecture=combined threading=multi --build- 
dir=/Volumes/Data_Storage/depot/sdk/boost/boost_1_37_0/lib/mac --with- 
system

The result was static and dynamic libraries for Intel only.

I also tried editing my user-config.jam file:
# Compiler configuration
using darwin : : : <compileflags>-arch ppc -arch i386 <linkflags>-arch  
ppc -arch i386 ;

This also did not work for me.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks,
Eric