Re: [Boost-users] Binary 1.34 installer

From: Doug Gregor (dgregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-11 15:01:06

On Jun 11, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Ole Christian Weidner wrote:

> This is interesting!
>
> Are you planning to provide a MacOS X style binary installer (a.k.a.
> package installer)? I'm about to start working on such an installer
> for Boost 1.34 but that would save me some work. If so, are you
> planing to provide Universal Libraries (containing Intel and PowerPC
> libs)? Until now I couldn't convince bjam to automatically produce
> fat libs on MacOS.

Ticket #989 concerns support for universal binaries in Boost.Build:

   http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/989

At present, there is no such support. I don't know Boost Consulting's  
plans in this regard, but I doubt that we will see a Mac OS X binary  
installer along these lines any time soon.

Some of us are working on a CMake-based build system for Boost, which  
includes creating binary installers for Windows and Mac OS X (with  
universal binaries). I have no idea if the CMake build system will  
make it into Boost, but if it does... we'll certainly be creating  
binary installers for Mac OS X.

        - Doug