Installing graph-tool on Mac OS X (10.7) - already have Boost installed, but keep getting this error

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I've been stuck on this issue for a while now. I'm trying to install graph-tool - http://graph-tool.skewed.de/download#macos - and I have the prereqs from following these steps, which the graph-tool site links to: https://gist.github.com/openp2pdesign/8864593 Instead of brew install, which didn't seem to give me all the files, I went to Boost's official site and downloaded from there properly, following these steps: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html It's mainly getting a tar file and untarring it. I then put my boost install here: ``` /usr/local/boost_1_55_0 ``` I did a small C++ example and confirmed Boost works (using "Build a Simple Program Using Boost" from http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html. Now the meat of the problem: trying to install graph-tool. In the very last step, I do ``` ./configure PYTHON_EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/bin" ``` (The PYTHON_EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/bin" just makes the c…

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Solution

Upgrade clang via Xcode

Make a symlink to boost that includes the version number

/usr/local/include/boost-1_55.0 -> ../Cellar/boost/1.55.0/include/boost

(included because I installed Boost using Brew and had this issue)

Edit the generation of CXXFLAGS in configure so that it looks like this:

old_cxxflags="$CXXFLAGS" CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -std=gnu++11 -stdlib=libc++" { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking whether C++ compiler supports -std=gnu++11" >&5 $as_echo_n "checking whether C++ compiler supports -std=gnu++11... " >&6; }

Run

./configure --disable-sparsehash CXX="/usr/bin/clang++" PYTHON_EXTRA_LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/bin"

Versions

OS: Mac OS X 10.8.5 Clang: Apple LLVM version 5.0 (clang-500.2.79) (based on LLVM 3.3svn) Target: x86_64-apple-darwin12.5.0 Thread model: posix Graph-tool: 2.2.29.1 Boost: 1.55.0

Explanation

If you go through the configure code and try and compile the confdefs.h files made in configure, you'll see clang error out upon encountering the -Wno-unused-local-typedefs flag. This is the actual cause of the "We could not detect the boost libraries (version 1.33 or higher)" error, not the fact that it can't find the boost files. This issue is fixed with newer versions of clang.

The configure test for version number is goofy. It expects the boost include directory to contain the version number.

While running make, you may run into the following errors:

./../graph_adjacency.hh:26:10: fatal error: 'tuple' file not found

This is caused by referencing the wrong standard library [1]

```
./../graph_adaptor.hh:655:39: error: expected ';' in 'for' statement specifier  
    for(typeof(removed_edges.begin()) iter = removed_edges.begin();  
./../graph_adaptor.hh:655:39: error: use of undeclared identifier 'tier'  
```

This is caused by referencing the wrong C++ standard (c++11 instead of gnu++11)

References

[1] No member named 'forward' in namespace 'std' [2] I'm having some trouble with C++11 in Xcode

Installing graph-tool on Mac OS X (10.7) - already have Boost installed, but keep getting this error

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