Re: [Boost-users] Binary 1.34 installer

From: Stuart Dootson (stuart.dootson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-12 12:45:31

On 12/06/07, Douglas Gregor <doug.gregor_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> For what it's worth, here is an *unsupported* *alpha* installer for
> Boost 1.34.0 on Mac OS X that I just rolled with CMake's packaging
> facilities:
>
>         http://www.generic-programming.org/~dgregor/Boost-1.34.0-Darwin.dmg
>
> It doesn't have the HTML documentation, but it installs headers and
> universal library binaries.
>
>         - Doug

I'll give that a go - a 10 minute download's got to be better than the
hour or so my iBook would need to build Boost ;-)

Stuart Dootson