Manually installing Boost 1.55 on OSX

Posted on Sun 19 October 2014 in tech • Tagged with osx, homebrew, boost, c++

Boost 1.56.0 which is currently installed by homebrew is broken. Just try to compile the following C++ program. It will fail.

#include <boost/graph/adjacency_matrix.hpp>

int main() {
}

Here are the steps to manually install Boost 1.55:

  • Download Boost 1.55 here
  • Extract the source and cd …

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