Re: [Visualpython-users] Help with Boost on Mac OS

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> Note in the CVS file MAC-OSX.txt (which is somewhat out of date) these 
> comments, which may or may not be relevant to your problem:
> 
> Before making a change to src/Makefile.in, I got a message about 
> possible mismatch of versions,
> as though when I build against /sw/bin/python2.5 and then run 
> /sw/bin/python2.5 the system thinks
> these are different pythons. Martin Costabel commented:
> 
> "I am getting this, too, when using the dynamic boost-python library, 
> but not with the static
> libboost_python-mt.a. This is certainly a bug with the 
> libboost_python-mt.dylib, but I haven't
> yet found a combination of build flags to build it correctly, in 
> particular in a way that would
> also work on OSX 10.5."

In the meantime, I found the right flags. The current Fink boost1.34 (or 
1.35) libraries work for me with vpython (3.2.9 or also 4beta24), using 
the dynamic library.

-- 
Martin