Boost: how to build Boost under MacOSX

Question

I am trying to build MacOSX universal binaries (I need at least i386/ppc for >=macosx10.3) of Boost.

I tried a lot of different methods and options and versions and it all fails in the end with this crash:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1823605/boost-what-could-be-the-reasons-for-a-crash-in-boostslotslot

I guess this crash is because of a bad Boost build.

With Boost-1.41.0, I think the most correct options I tried were this:

./bootstrap.sh && sudo ./bjam architecture=combined macosx-version=10.4 install

Answer 1

I suggest you use MacPorts to install Boost. That will build it automatically for you.

http://www.macports.org/ports.php?by=library&substr=boost

Answer 2

It was already the correct command. I found out about the problem with my crash:

You must use exactly the same STL preprocessor definitions when you compiled Boost in your project. I.e. you cannot enable _GLIBCXX_DEBUG or _GLIBCXX_DEBUG_PEDANTIC in your project when Boost was compiled without those.

Answer 3

Just installed from macports and hopefully this is good enough for you. Command below:

sudo port install boost +universal