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Including the Boost C++ library in XCode

Submitted by alanhogan on November 27, 2007 - 11:08pm. | | | | | |

For those of you Mac OS X programmers trying to use the Boost C++ library who are confused with all this #include and #include-path nonsense and can't get your program to compile, I have finally figured it out.

All you need to do is follow these steps.

  1. Unzip the Boost library somewhere, for example /usr/local (tip: Use Finder's “Go > Go to folder...” command to go to this hidden folder)
  2. Open or create your XCode project
  3. In the project window, click on the project name (right under the heading “Groups & Files”)
  4. Click the Info button (blue circle with i)
  5. Locate “Header Search Paths” and edit it. Add the path of wherever you unzipped the Boost library, for example, /usr/local/boost_1_34_1
  6. Compile and run!

Hope that helped. If you are still having problems, try Googling lists.boost.org.

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Thank you

Submitted by Anonymous on April 11, 2008 - 2:34pm.

Thanks for this post. It made my life a lot better.

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