On 19/2/10 00:23, J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote:
While trying to build py2geom, I run into problems because the version of Boost that we use (1.34) does not support our compiler's version (gcc 4.4.1). Not being able to build py2geom is not a huge problem for Inkscape, but it is a big disappointment.
I read that Boost 1.37+ does support gcc 4.4.0. Boost 1.34 was released in 2007. Boost 1.37 at the end of 2008. Is that too recent for us to be able to use it?
Increasing the version of Boost for Windows is not a big problem, since we have our devlibs. For Linux, I do not know the issues involved.
Don't know about Linux, but on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard I have used Boost v1.39 - v1.42, installed via MacPorts [1] and built with gcc 4.0.1 [2], for Inkscape development snapshots (0.46+devel, 0.47+devel) - no issues except that it consumes a lot of disk space and takes nearly an hour to compile ;-).
AFAIU the same Boost version (currently 1.42) is available on the other OS X versions supported by MacPorts (Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard).
I haven't tried to build py2geom itself on osx.
~suv
[1] http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/devel/boost/Portfile http://trac.macports.org/browser/trunk/dports/devel/boost-jam/Portfile
[2] $ gcc --version i686-apple-darwin9-gcc-4.0.1 (GCC) 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5493)