[Boost-users] Building Boost on MacOS 10.4 (Tiger)

From: Dave Snowdon (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-09 05:44:46

Hello

Has anyone successfully built boost on an Mac running MacOS 10.4? If so 
I'd appreciate some pointers on what worked for you.

I've tried both boost 1.32 and a "fresh from CVS" copy with gcc 3.3 and 
gcc 4.0 on a Powerbook G4 with 512Mb RAM with a fresh install of MacOS 
10.4. The Mac has 1.15Gb free on the startup partition and 1.36Gb free 
on the partition where I'm compiling boost. So far no attempt has met 
with success. All builds were attempted from the Terminal app with no 
other applications runnng.

Compiling boost 1.32 with gcc 4.0 (the default compiler on MacOS 10.4) 
fails (unrecognised compiler version) because at the time 1.32 was 
released gcc 4.0 was not available.

Compiling boost 1.32 with gcc 3.3 (bjam "-sTOOLS=darwin" "-sGCC=gcc-3.3" 
"-sGXX=gcc-3.3" stage) gives some rather strange results. Link actions 
seems to fail such as:

...failed darwin-Link-DyLib-action bin/boost/libs/date_time/build/libboost_date_time.dylib/darwin/debug/shared-linkable-true/libboost_date_time-d-1_32.dylib...

Almost all the calls to ld gives undefined symbol errors similar to (I'm 
not sure if this is due to previously failed link actions):

darwin-Link-DyLib-action bin/boost/libs/date_time/build/libboost_date_time.dylib/darwin/debug/shared-linkable-true/libboost_date_time-d-1_32.dylib

ld: Undefined symbols:

__ZNKSbIwSt11char_traitsIwESaIwEE3endEv

__ZNKSbIwSt11char_traitsIwESaIwEE5beginEv

__ZNKSs2atEm

__ZNKSs3endEv

__ZNKSs5beginEv

__ZNKSs6lengthEv

__ZNKSs7compareERKSs

__ZNKSt11logic_error4whatEv

__ZNKSt18basic_stringstreamIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEE3strEv

__ZNKSt18basic_stringstreamIwSt11char_traitsIwESaIwEE3strEv

__ZNKSt9basic_iosIcSt11char_traitsIcEE4failEv

__ZNKSt9basic_iosIwSt11char_traitsIwEE4failEv

__ZNKSt9type_infoeqERKS_

__ZNSaIcEC1Ev

__ZNSaIcED1Ev

After about 15 minutes or so the Mac grinds to a halt and starts popping 
up dialog boxes warning that the startup disk is full and then later 
that "Your Mac OS X startup disk has no more space available for 
application memory. To avoid problems with your computer quit any 
applications you may not be using"

Using gcc 4.0 (bjam "-sTOOLS=darwin" stage) on the the CVS copy gives 
many errors similar to this:

...failed darwin-C++-action bin/boost/libs/wave/build/libboost_wave.a/darwin/release/cpp_re.o...

...skipped <@boost!libs!wave!build/libboost_wave.a/darwin/release>libboost_wave-1_33.a for lack of <@boost!libs!wave!build/libboost_wave.a/darwin/release>instantiate_cpp_exprgrammar.o...

...skipped <@boost!lib>libboost_wave-1_33.a for lack of <@boost!libs!wave!build/libboost_wave.a/darwin/release>libboost_wave-1_33.a...

Previously I've been using boost 1.32 on a machine running Red Hat Linux 
8 with gcc 3.2 and have not experienced any problems getting it to build.

Any advice appreciated....

thanks

Dave