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Asked: 2026-05-10T23:21:21+00:00

I have just installed boost for the first time on my Intel Mac, and

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I have just installed boost for the first time on my Intel Mac, and it works fine in general, as long as I use only boost’s header files.

But when I try to use a lib, in my case the regex lib, my app links and launches fine, but then it soon crashes in a regex related destructor.

This even happens with the simple test program that’s given on boost.org’s unix install page .

I wonder if I need to set special compile/link options (I’ve used the defaults for a C++ Tool) other than setting the search paths and including the regex lib, of course?

(BTW, I have verified that the default compiler on my system is indeed gcc 4.01, which is the same my test project in XCode uses)

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  1. Answer to self:

    While it’s still not clear what causes this problem, there is a workaround:

    Instead of using the libs that the boost installer process builds, add the source code for the lib (in boost-main-folder/libs/libname/src/) to your Xcode project instead, having Xcode compile the sources for you.

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