Re: How to build boost on Darwin/MacOSX

From: Reed Hedges (reed_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-21 16:11:47

Aha.

I was using "bjam -sTOOLS=gcc", when I *should* have used
        
        bjam -sTOOLS=darwin

reed

I wrote:
> Hello. I'm new to Boost, and am trying to build the boost_thread
> library on Darwin (Mac OSX 10.2.4). I have tried 1.30.0 and the CVS
> version, but get a bunch of linker errors (copied below), as well as a
> warning about Python (which I assume is safe to ignore if I don't want
> Python stuff).
>
> What is the correct way to build boost on Darwin/OSX?
>
> I have tried the following:
> 	bjam boost_thread
> 	bjam -sTOOLS=gcc boost_thread
> 	bjam -sBUILD="framework bundle-loader" boost_thread
> 	bjam
> 	bjam -sTOOLS=gcc
> 	...
> And I tried hacking tools/build/gcc-tools.jam to add "-lstdc++" to the
> linker command line.
>
> All have the same problem.
>
> here is my GCC version:
> 	$ gcc --version
> 	2.95.2
>
> 	(3.2, which is also available for OSX, and I think might be the
> defauld, has bugs [so does 2.95 though...], so I can't use it for my
> own c++ code)
>
>   Here is the bjam output (I used "bjam -q boost_thread" on the CVS
> checkout):
>
>
>
> [...Python warning...]
>
> ...found 322 targets...
> ...updating 6 targets...
> gcc-Link-action
> libs/thread/build/bin/libboost_thread.dylib/gcc/debug/runtime-link-
> dynamic/shared-linkable-true/libboost_thread.dylib
> /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
> _main
> __._9exception
> ___builtin_delete
> ___cp_push_exception
> ___eh_alloc
...