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wotaskd

Reputation: 945

Building boost with a different compiler on Mac OS X

I'm trying to figure out how to build the boost C++ libraries on Mac OS X with a different compiler than Apple's own.

I have both Xcode 4.5 (with command-line developer tools) and QT Creator installed on my computer, which means that when I issue bootstrap.sh and b2, the system will utilize the default Apple compiler.

I believe there's some configuration that I need to do with my environment variables, but I have no idea of what should I pass as toolset (since it seems that qmake is not one of the options listed).

This is how I'm using b2 right now with Apple's compiler:

./b2 link=static threading=multi toolset=darwin architecture=x86 target-os=darwin address-model=32_64 stage

Upvotes: 1

Views: 559

Answers (1)

Jan Šimek
Jan Šimek

Reputation: 480

You cannot build anything with qmake, because qmake is a Makefile generator, not a compiler. You have to use GCC or some other compiler to compile Boost and then add it to your qmake project file to be linked.

Upvotes: 2

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