Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #4664: libboost_zlib + libboost_iostreams - link error (XCode, MacOSX)

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:05:55 GMT

"std::bad_alloc::what() const" is part of the standard library. Please check if you are linking with.

anonymous — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:21:54 GMT

Can confirm the problem here, for me this occurs when compiling with gcc 4.2 against the MacOS 10.5 SDK (and MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5).

Linking works if I compile with gcc 4.0, but then another libstdc++ symbol can not be resolved at runtime on MacOS 10.5 (Symbol not found: ZNKSt9exception4whatEv).

This is probably caused by ABI incompatibilites between gcc 4.0 and gcc 4.2, if anyone has any suggestions how to build boost on MacOS 10.5 with gcc 4.2 this would be appreciated.

anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 23:21:04 GMT

I got the same error. But I "solved" it in this way: use boost 1.42 rather than 1.44 or 1.45. I use gcc 4.2. I have tried boot 1.44 and 1.45. They both give me a linker error. By 1.45, I got this instead:

boost::iostreams::detail::bzip2_base::check_end(char const*, char const*)", referenced from: boost::iostreams::detail::bzip2_decompressor_impl<std::allocator<char> >::filter(char const*&, char const*, char*&, char*, bool)in main.o ld: symbol(s) not found

Has something changed from 1.42 to 1.44? Anybody know how to let boost 1.45 works with zlib / libbzip2 ?

Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:14:17 GMT

The 10.5 and 10.6 SDK bad_alloc class differs by the method "what". My guess is that boost is compiling against the 10.6 header files when asked to use the 10.5 SDK.