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

From: Caleb Epstein (caleb.epstein_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-10 06:45:03

On 5/9/05, Dave Snowdon <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> 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 [...]

This looks like an error caused by linking with "gcc" instead of
"g++".  When you use gcc as your linker, it doesn't automatically pull
in libstdc++, which might explain the unresolved externals.  Perhaps
you should try "-sGXX=g++-3.3"

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Caleb Epstein
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