“Thread” Boost fails to build on OSX?

Question

i'm trying to compile boost 1.57 from source on OSX 10.10.5 but seems to fail to build "thread" lib.

OSX 10.10.5 Yosemite

Xcode 6.1

here is compiling command "

$ ./b2 toolset=clang cxxflags="-arch x86_64 -std=c++11 -stdlib=libstdc++ -ftemplate-depth=512" linkflags="-stdlib=libstdc++" link=static install --with-program_options --with-system --with-filesystem --with-chrono --with-thread

Error :

clang-darwin.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/thread/build/clang-darwin-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/pthread/thread.o
In file included from libs/thread/src/pthread/thread.cpp:11:
In file included from ./boost/thread/thread_only.hpp:17:
In file included from ./boost/thread/pthread/thread_data.hpp:11:
In file included from ./boost/thread/lock_guard.hpp:12:
./boost/thread/detail/move.hpp:31:10: fatal error: 'type_traits' file not found
#include <type_traits>
         ^
1 error generated.

    "clang++" -x c++ -Wextra -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros -Wunused-function -arch x86_64 -std=c++11 -stdlib=libstdc++ -ftemplate-depth=512 -O3 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_SYSTEM_STATIC_LINK=1 -DBOOST_THREAD_BUILD_LIB=1 -DBOOST_THREAD_DONT_USE_CHRONO -DBOOST_THREAD_POSIX -DNDEBUG -I"." -c -o "bin.v2/libs/thread/build/clang-darwin-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/pthread/thread.o" "libs/thread/src/pthread/thread.cpp"

...failed clang-darwin.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/thread/build/clang-darwin-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/pthread/thread.o...
clang-darwin.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/thread/build/clang-darwin-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/pthread/once.o
In file included from libs/thread/src/pthread/once.cpp:8:
In file included from libs/thread/src/pthread/./once_atomic.cpp:9:
In file included from ./boost/thread/once.hpp:20:
In file included from ./boost/thread/pthread/once_atomic.hpp:16:
./boost/thread/detail/move.hpp:31:10: fatal error: 'type_traits' file not found
#include <type_traits>
         ^
1 error generated.

    "clang++" -x c++ -Wextra -Wno-long-long -Wno-variadic-macros -Wunused-function -arch x86_64 -std=c++11 -stdlib=libstdc++ -ftemplate-depth=512 -O3 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_SYSTEM_STATIC_LINK=1 -DBOOST_THREAD_BUILD_LIB=1 -DBOOST_THREAD_DONT_USE_CHRONO -DBOOST_THREAD_POSIX -DNDEBUG -I"." -c -o "bin.v2/libs/thread/build/clang-darwin-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/pthread/once.o" "libs/thread/src/pthread/once.cpp"

...failed clang-darwin.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/thread/build/clang-darwin-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/pthread/once.o...
...skipped <pbin.v2/libs/thread/build/clang-darwin-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_thread.a(clean) for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/thread/build/clang-darwin-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi>pthread/thread.o...
...skipped <pbin.v2/libs/thread/build/clang-darwin-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_thread.a for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/thread/build/clang-darwin-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi>pthread/thread.o...
...skipped <p/usr/local/lib>libboost_thread.a for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/thread/build/clang-darwin-4.2.1/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_thread.a...
...failed updating 2 targets...
...skipped 3 targets...

What do you think is the problem ?

Answer 1

I am a latecomer to the party but I have ran into the same issue and the problem is that you want to build it with C++11 but not with libc++.

It looks like that the older version of C++11 implementations were patchy. The libstdc++ is missing the type_traits header, as simple as that. Use the -stdlib=libc++ switch and you should be sorted.