Comments on: Simple Guide to Installing Boost on Mac OS X

By: Compiling Boost on Mac OS X for 64bit Builds | Technoboria

Compiling Boost on Mac OS X for 64bit Builds | Technoboria — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:17:48 +0000

[...] on my hands at the moment, I thought I’d get back into playing around with Boost. Since my Simple Guide to Installing Boost on Mac OS X article was published we have had a few new releases of Boost, and more importantly a whole new [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:42:09 +0000

No, I’ve not tried it yet. Reading around on the forums it does seem to be a problem. Not sure what it is yet. When I work it out I’ll update the article. If anyone finds a solution, let me know in the comments.

Thanks for pointing this out.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:10:27 +0000

Has anyone tried this on Snow Leopard? The “architecture=combined” parameter causes everything to fail.

By: Game Programming with C++ and Gosu | Technoboria

Game Programming with C++ and Gosu | Technoboria — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:17:29 +0000

[...] if you are brave enough to do some 3D. It is built on top of the Boost libraries (See my previous post on Installing Boost), so if you need advanced stuff like threads you can get those without too much [...]

By: moka

moka — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:57:31 +0000

ah okay that makes sense. thanks

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:40:01 +0000

Most of boost is compiled inline from the headers. You only need the library’s to link against for threads, regex and a couple of other things. Any boost.framework would need to include everything in boost to be useful, that would be all the libraries and all the headers which would lead to quite large apps.

In the end, after you’ve got the libraries compiled you just need to include the one’s you need to get your app to link and make sure there’s a build step to copy them over, it’s almost the same as using a framework, except the copy isn’t done automatically during the build.

By: moka

moka — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:31:15 +0000

hmm okay, I am genereally new to frameworks and all the c++ library types, so this might be a stupid question. it’s not possible to compile it all into one framework, so I could simply include boost.framework in my xCode Project?

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:26:52 +0000

I think it might be. A few people have recommended just dumping the source into your own xcode project and compiling it in. I would advise against it though because boost is pretty bit! If you link against the dynamic dylibs you need to copy those into your executable bundle which is the same as you’d need to do with a framework.

By: moka

moka — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:19:42 +0000

no i guess that was the problem. Another question, do you know if it is possible to compile the files into one boost.framework? thank you!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:06:41 +0000

Hmm strange, have you definitely setup a root account? Otherwise I don’t think sudo will work. You also need to use the password you set for the root account, not your current login password. Like most Unix commands it doesn’t give you an error when it fails, which is a pain. I might give the instructions another run through to see if I missed anything.