Re: [Boost-users] MAC OS X installation of boost libs

From: Michael Short (mst03004_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-03-24 17:33:12

Thanks this help out with the problems and no warnings I dont thing.

Thanks again maybe someone should add this to the docs!

Michael

On 24 Mar 2004, at 17:56, James Mastro wrote:

> On Mar 24, 2004, at 8:45 AM, Michael Short wrote:
>
>> First I done find the bjam tool?
>>
>> Second when I build the bjam tool myself I get the following error. 
>> Jamfile:71: in module scope
>> rule unless unknown in module.
>
> Here's how I built bjam:
>
> Download the 1.31.0 sources from SourceForge from the link in my other 
> mail. This will give you a folder called "boost_1_31_0" which I will 
> call BOOST_ROOT.
>
> To build bjam:
>
> cd {BOOST_ROOT}/tools/build/jam_src
> sh ./build.sh
>
> This builds bjam and jam in 
> "{BOOST_ROOT}/tools/build/jam_src/bin.macosxppc".
> When you build boost, bjam needs to be in your path somewhere. I made 
> a folder ~/bin which is in my path. I copied bjam and jam into ~/bin. 
> Don't forget to add the folder to your $PATH variable if it isn't 
> already.
>
> Then to build the boost libs:
>
> cd {BOOST_ROOT}
> bjam "-sTOOLS=darwin" install
>
> I'm pretty sure that's all I did to get them to build and install. 
> IIRC, almost all libs built without a problem. Also, it is possible 
> you do not even need to build the boost libraries depending on what 
> parts of boost you are using if you still have problems. I used the 
> smart_ptr's only for a long time without ever building anything, since 
> they are just template headers.
>
> Most of this is just from 
> http://www.boost.org/tools/build/jam_src/index.html#building_bjam
>
> -jim