[Boost-users] Re: new to Boost - need help with installation issues

Avram Aelony writes:

From: Avram Aelony Subject: new to Boost - need help with installation issues Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.boost.user Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 01:05:51 -0700 Reply-To: Boost Users mailing list

Hi,

I would like to use Boost on my Powerbook G4 running Jaguar (Mac Os X 10.2.8). I have tried to make as much sense as possible from Boost documentation concerning bjam and tried to install Boost yet I suspect it failed, as I see no newly created target (library, object file, etc..).

If anyone uses Boost running on Mac Os X, I would be grateful to learn of how they installed Boost and how they currently use Boost in the sense of "Best practices". I'm fluent in c++ and I look forward to being able to write my c++ code invoking Boost objects/functions.

Any help appreciated.

thanks,

Avram

More detailed info...

First, Avram, thanks for the detailed info. It's probably too detailed, though: many hundreds of kilobytes of warning messages are probably not appropriate to post here. Second, see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.python.c++/4504/match=darwin+ralf I believe you need to use bjam -sTOOLS=darwin

Using my Powerbook G4 running Mac Os X 10.2.8 with gcc 3.3 and I did the following:

-downloaded boost-1.30.2.tar.gz -downloaded boost-jam-3.1.7.tgz -created a directory in ~/Library called Boost and moved the two downloaded files there. -expanded downloaded boost-jam-3.1.7.tgz and ran build.sh -opened my ~/.cshrc file and set my path to include ~/Library/Boost/boost-jam-3.1.7/bin.macosxppc -expanded boost-1.30.2.tar.gz and went to directory with jam files -set up my environment variables relating to Python, i.e. setenv PYTHON_ROOT /sw/bin/python setenv PYTHON_LIB_PATH /sw/lib/python2.2/config setenv PYTHON_INCLUDES /sw/include/python2.2 [aa:~/Library/Boost/boost-1.30.2] aelony% which python /sw/bin/python [aa:~/Library/Boost/boost-1.30.2] aelony% python -V Python 2.2.2

-ran bjam [aa:~] aelony% which bjam /Users/aelony/Library/Boost/boost-jam-3.1.7/bin.macosxppc/bjam [aa:~] aelony% cd /Users/aelony/Library/Boost/boost-1.30.2

[aa:~/Library/Boost/boost-1.30.2] aelony% ls Jamfile* boost/ doc/ more/ tools/ Jamfile.v2* boost-build.jam* google_logo_40wht.gif* people/ Jamrules* boost.css* index.htm* project-root.jam* README* c++boost.gif* libs/ status/

Here is what it output, with modest indications of failure....

[aa:~/Library/Boost/boost-1.30.2] aelony% bjam

...patience... ...found 3066 targets... ...updating 138 targets... MkDir1 libs/python/build/bin-stage

-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com