Comments on: Compiling Boost for the iPhone

By: Roberto Lopez

Roberto Lopez — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:25:49 +0000

Did anyone have trouble building boost.serialization?

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Boost & RCF on Mac OSX with Xcode | NetQuote.it — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 14:02:59 +0000

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By: Matt Galloway

Matt Galloway — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:53:36 +0000

@ma – You don’t need to do this now on latest boosts. Check out my new post – http://iphone.galloway.me.uk/2010/09/compiling-boost-1-44-for-iphone/ – for information on how to compile 1.44.

By: ma

ma — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:16:30 +0000

hello thanks for this tutorial.
“Then edit tools/build/v2/tools/darwin.jam and add in the following under the macosx-versions variable:”
i don’t find this variable to edit it. could you please show me where to find it. or where should i insert it.
boost 1.44 SDK 4.2 mac osx 10.6

By: Matt Galloway

Matt Galloway — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:23:41 +0000

@palithius - Please see my new post.

By: Matt Galloway

Matt Galloway — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:17:27 +0000

@palithius – Yeh I’ve just taken a look and it seems they’ve got it all wrong in 1.44. I’ll try to get a working patch together to make it work. Basically it seems that they’ve tried to get everything automatically working so you don’t need to edit the user-config.jam file, but they’ve got a few bits wrong in the configuration.

I’ll keep you posted, but for now I suggest you use and earlier version like 1.42 if you don’t need the features added in 1.44.

By: Matt Galloway

Matt Galloway — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:24:50 +0000

@palithius – sure, I’ll take a look for you and update the post. I’m still using 1.41 so I’ve not had a chance yet Yo try 1.44.

By: palithius

palithius — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:06:46 +0000

Have you built boost 1.44? I am trying to build with latest iphone SDK. I added include=/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneOS4.0.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1/armv7-apple-darwin10/ to the bjam line. It was having all sorts of problems witht he macosx-version tags so I had to get rid of them all. When I attempt to compile it just flips out, apparently from not finding the proper basic include files. Any chance you might post a blog on this ?

By: foogy

foogy — Wed, 26 May 2010 23:34:46 +0000

Thanks Matt, actually I also had to modify user-config.jam.
I removed the tags from the file. (Thanks to grafikrobot on the boost irc channel for that)

Also, some part of 1.42 and 1.43 clash with objective-c because of the use of “id” as a variable name in basic_regex_creator.hpp and perl_matcher_common.hpp.
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4132

This issue is fixed in the trunk.

By: Matt Galloway

Matt Galloway — Wed, 26 May 2010 14:18:19 +0000

@foogy – Yep I’ve compiled 1.43. It should “just work” without needing to do anything to Darwin.jam I am pretty sure. I.e. all you need to do is run the `bjam’ lines from the boost-1.42 section.