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How do you install Boost on MacOS? Right now I can't find bjam for the Mac.

update: Thanks for the MacPorts answer, and special thanks to hasseg's comment for the link

http://www.macports.org/

I'm still new to my Mac, but with ports it seems like we'll get going along much better.

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sudo port install boost

dies
This is what dies is referring to: http://www.macports.org/
hasseg
Thanks you save me a lot of time !
malat
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you can download bjam for OSX (or any other OS) here

Ferruccio
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If you haven't already read it, you should look at the getting started guide for unix variants.

If you want to build it manually, go to tools/jam in the boost distribution and run build_dist.sh.

Daniel James
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dmckee
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Unless your compiler is different than the one supplied with the Mac XCode Dev tools, just follow the instructions in section 5.1 of Getting Started Guide for Unix Variants. The configuration and building of the latest source couldn't be easier, and it took all about about 1 minute to configure and 10 minutes to compile.