Re: [Boost-users] build problems on Mac OS with MacPorts gcc

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] build problems on Mac OS with MacPorts gcc
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-07 10:15:06

Rob Nikander wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm on OS X, and I have a gcc 4.5 from macports (because I wanted
> C++0x features).  I downloaded boost and compiled the regex library,
> but used the default boost build commands so it used apple's gcc,
> which led to weird bug when linked to a program created with gcc4.5.
> (Maybe that's not supposed to happen?  I can start another thread
> about that.)  Now I'm trying to build boost with the gcc 4.5, but that
> doesn't work...
> 
> I followed these instructions to build bjam:
> 
>    http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/doc/html/jam/building.html
> 
> I also edited a 'user-config.jam' to have:
> 
>    using gcc : 4.5 : g++-mp-4.5 ;
> 
> Then went to BOOST_ROOT and ran:
> 
>    bjam toolset=gcc stage
> 
> And it eventually barfs with this:
> 
>    gcc.link.dll
> bin.v2/libs/regex/build/gcc-4.5/release/threading-multi/libboost_regex.dylib
>    ld: unknown option: -h
>    collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Any ideas?

Use 'darwin', not 'gcc', as the toolset.

- Volodya