[C++-sig] bgl Python on Mac OS X

[Gazihan Alankus]

I've had the exact same problem when trying to build my own simple library
that's using Boost.Python. I remember realizing that the problem was I
didn't follow the steps here and the boost.jam pages that it refers to:
http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/building.html

And I vaguely remember that the solution involved getting a user-config.jam
created in my home directory with this content:


# Boost.Build Configuration
# Automatically generated by Boost configure

# Compiler configuration
using gcc ;

# Python configuration
using python : 2.4 : /usr ;


You probably just need to configure boost.jam right.

Hope this helps. 

-Gazi 


Peter Saffrey wrote:

> I'm trying to build this. I've downloaded the boost libraries (version
> 1.34) and run configure, make and sudo make install without errors.
> 
> Then I've downloaded bgl-python (0.9) and, as instructed, found the
> bjam executable from the boost hierarchy, copied it somewhere
> convenient and run it in the bgl-python directory. That gave me this
> error:
> 
> Unable to load Boost.Build: could not find "boost-build.jam"
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Attempted search from /Users/pzs/incoming/bgl-python-0.9 up to the
> root
> and in these directories from BOOST_BUILD_PATH and BOOST_ROOT: /usr/
> share/boost-build.
> Please consult the documentation at 'http://www.boost.org'.
> 
> So I set $BOOST_ROOT to be the root of the boost 1.34 directory and
> tried bjam again. This time I get:
> 
> error: Could not find parent for project at '.'
> error: Did not find Jamfile or project-root.jam in any parent
> directory.
> 
> I've also tried the binary, but that doesn't work either, probably
> because I'm running Python 2.5 and the binary is for 2.3.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Peter