[Boost-users] [Regex] Can't create dylib that links regex statically

Subject: [Boost-users] [Regex] Can't create dylib that links regex statically
From: Marcos Pearson (marcos.pearson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-16 17:21:34

Hi there,

I'm hoping someone can give me some hints on what I'm doing wrong.  I'm trying to create a library that uses regex and has no external dependencies.  My understanding is that I need to compile boost to be static and link static at runtime.  My project is multi-platform, but I'm currently working on OSX 10.6.5.

To build boost, I'm using the following command:

sudo ./bjam link=static threading=multi runtime-link=static architecture=combined address-model=32_64 macosx-version=10.5 macosx-version-min=10.5 install

In Xcode, I've included the produced library, libboost_regex.a, in my Xcode project.  I compile my dylib without errors or warning.  However, I'm unable to load it.  Checking the dependencies, my library seems to want the libboost_regex.dylib.  Why?

$ otool -L libglobalkvp.dylib
libglobalkvp.dylib:
/usr/local/lib/libglobalkvp.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
/Users/marcospearson/Library/Frameworks/iqvectorsdk.framework/Versions/A/iqvectorsdk (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
libboost_regex.dylib (compatibility version 0.0.0, current version 0.0.0)
/usr/lib/libstdc++.6.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.4.0)
/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 111.1.4)

I've built, and re-build the boost libraries more times that I can remember and have read post after post, but haven't been able to figure out a solution.  Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Marcos