Cannot build with Boost 1.76 on macOs Catalina

[cidus]

I was following this zigbee2mqtt tutorial https://www.zigbee2mqtt.io/information/flashing_the_cc2531.html

brew info boost
boost: stable 1.76.0 (bottled), HEAD
Collection of portable C++ source libraries
https://www.boost.org/

./configure
checking for Boost's header version... 1_76
checking for the toolset name used by Boost for g++... xgcc42 -xgcc
checking for boost/program_options.hpp... yes
checking for the Boost program_options library... yes
checking for boost/system/error_code.hpp... yes
checking for the Boost system library... (cached) yes
checking for boost/regex.hpp... yes
checking for the Boost regex library... no
configure: error: cannot find the flags to link with Boost regex

After removing boost and installing boost@1.60, ./configure worked

[SRamsdell1]

I'm having the same issue with Big Sur 11.5.1, but unfortunately I can't downgrade to @1.60 ...

Error: boost@1.60 has been disabled because it is a versioned formula!

[cidus]

You can edit de brew formula and disable the warning. brew edit boost@1.60

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[SRamsdell1]

Thanks! I tried that with great hope, installed 1.60, but am still getting the failure at the same point.

[cidus]

Be sure to brew link boost@1.60 before compiling, or removing 1.76 prior to installing 1.60

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Em 29 de jul de 2021, à(s) 16:14, SRamsdell1 ***@***.***> escreveu: Thanks! I tried that with great hope, installed 1.60, but am still getting the failure at the same point. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#25 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAGKVQYTHDQ3A2GC6XPZ5UDT2GSCJANCNFSM5AROLU5A>.

[SRamsdell1]

Finally got it to work, thanks for your help!

[pahanini]

Unfortunately boost@1.60 was removed Homebrew/homebrew-core#84434
So this solution does not work any more.

[pahanini]

Solution

CC=/usr/bin/clang \
CXX=/usr/bin/clang++ \
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include \
LDFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include \
 ./bootstrap

CC=/usr/bin/clang \
CXX=/usr/bin/clang++ \
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include \
CXXFLAGS="-std=c++0x" \
LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -lboost_system" \
LIBUSB_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/libusb-1.0 \
LIBUSB_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -lusb-1.0" \
 ./configure

Found here https://gist.github.com/kidpixo/ef1a26ae953e3939a4eebe1b6fd2f07c

[pjensen1977]

CC=/usr/bin/clang
CXX=/usr/bin/clang++
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include
LDFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include
./bootstrap

When running the above i get:
./bootstrap
autoreconf: export WARNINGS=
autoreconf: Entering directory '.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I m4
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: glibtoolize --copy --force
glibtoolize: error: One of these is required:
glibtoolize: gm4 gnum4 m4
glibtoolize: error: Please install GNU M4, or 'export M4=/path/to/gnu/m4'.
autoreconf: error: glibtoolize failed with exit status: 1

m4 is installed: Warning: m4 1.4.19 is already installed and up-to-date.

[pahanini]

May be brew install m4 will help

[flatsiedatsie]

C=/usr/bin/clang
CXX=/usr/bin/clang++
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include
CXXFLAGS="-std=c++0x"
LDFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include -lboost_system"
LIBUSB_CFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/libusb-1.0
LIBUSB_LIBS="-L/usr/local/lib -lusb-1.0"
./configure

This did not work for me. Both on MacOS Mojave and Monterey. I got the same boost error as before.

[pahanini]

I've tried with Monterey 12.1 (21C52) and still works fine for me. Make sure you have right env variables, for example replace last line with env && ./configure

[xaralis]

Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work anymore on M1 based MacBook Pro. On M1 Homebrew installs stuff to /opt/homebrew and I just wasn't able to make it find boost even though it's installed. I may be missing something silly as I'm not really experienced with C/C++ compiling. I've tried following:

# This executes without issues
CC=/usr/bin/clang \
CXX=/usr/bin/clang++ \
CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/include \
LDFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/include \
 ./bootstrap

# This fails
CC=/usr/bin/clang \
CXX=/usr/bin/clang++ \
CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/include \
CXXFLAGS="-std=c++0x" \
LDFLAGS="-I/opt/homebrew/include/boost -lboost_system" \
LIBUSB_CFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/include/libusb-1.0 \
LIBUSB_LIBS="-L/opt/homebrew/lib -lusb-1.0" \
 ./configure

Configure in this case fails with configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables. The config.log file points out:

configure:4255: /usr/bin/clang  -I/opt/homebrew/include -I/opt/homebrew/include/boost -lboost_system conftest.c  >&5
ld: library not found for -lboost_system
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)

I've tried /opt/homebrew/include instead but it fails with same error. However, /opt/homebrew/include/boost does exist and contains bunch of *.hpp files so I guess I just don't know how to point the linker to proper place to look for it.

[PaoloConte]

@xaralis I managed to build it by changing LDFLAGS to

LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/boost/1.78.0_1/lib/" \

[liranbg]

@xaralis I managed to build it by changing LDFLAGS to

LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/boost/1.78.0_1/lib/" \

That worked for me. Thanks!

the completed command I used

CC=/usr/bin/clang \
CXX=/usr/bin/clang++ \
CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/include \
CXXFLAGS="-std=c++0x" \
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.78.0_1/lib/" \
LIBUSB_CFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/include/libusb-1.0 \
LIBUSB_LIBS="-L/opt/homebrew/lib -lusb-1.0" \
 ./configure

[ilio]

Thanks to @PaoloConte
working for me on mac m1 monterey

brew install boost libboost-all-dev libboost-test-dev autoconf automake libusb pkgconfig libtool

CC=/usr/bin/clang \                          
CXX=/usr/bin/clang++ \
CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/include \
LDFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/include \
 ./bootstrap

CC=/usr/bin/clang \
CXX=/usr/bin/clang++ \
CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/include \
CXXFLAGS="-std=c++0x" \
LDFLAGS="-L/opt/homebrew/Cellar/boost/1.78.0_1/lib/" \
LIBUSB_CFLAGS=-I/opt/homebrew/include/libusb-1.0 \
LIBUSB_LIBS="-L/opt/homebrew/lib -lusb-1.0" \
 ./configure`