Re: [Boost-users] Binary 1.34 installer

From: Stuart Dootson (stuart.dootson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-06-12 17:34:57

On 12/06/07, Stuart Dootson <stuart.dootson_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 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
>

Seems to work - I compiled and linked a small program using
Boost.Regex. Built and ran as expected. Nice work!

Stuart Dootson