{"id":64,"date":"2011-02-03T22:51:23","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T21:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.netquote.it\/nqmain\/?p=64"},"modified":"2011-02-19T17:56:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T16:56:58","slug":"building-boost-and-rcf-on-mac-osx-sl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.netquote.it\/nqmain\/2011\/02\/building-boost-and-rcf-on-mac-osx-sl\/","title":{"rendered":"Boost & RCF on Mac OSX with Xcode"},"content":{"rendered":"

Litle HowTo prepare Boost and RCF on Mac!
\nMy work environment is Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6 and Xcode 3.2.5
\nBoost version is 1.45.0 and RCF version is 1.3<\/p>\n

What is Boost and RCF?
\nBoost is a powerful and portable C++ library.
\nRCF is a Remote Call Framework something like RPC.<\/p>\n

The two libraries written in C++ seems to be Cross Platform and Cross Compiler also 64 bit.
\nFrom RCF documentation only one thing must be done.
\nUse of the typedef’s in “boost\/cstdint.hpp” for portability.<\/p>\n

The first step is to download and compile boost.
\nThe official site is http:\/\/www.boost.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Extract downloaded file to your working directory, start terminal and navigate to the root of the extracted boost directory then execute “bootstrap.sh”
\nIt’s build a bjam command-line tool that drives the Boost Build system.
\n
\ncd ~\/Documents\/boost_1_45_0\/
\n.\/bootstrap.sh --with-libraries=all
\n<\/code>
\nRun bjam and wait, wait a lot!
\n
\n.\/bjam --layout=tagged variant=debug -j 2 architecture=combined-x86-power stage
\n<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
————(OPTIONS)————<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
--toolset=darwin<\/code>
\nApple’s version of the GCC toolchain with support for Darwin and MacOS X features such as frameworks.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
--build-type=complete<\/code>
\nBuild all supported variants of the libraries.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
--layout=tagged<\/code>
\nNames of boost binaries include the encoded build properties such as variant and threading.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
--with-<libraryname><\/code>
\nBuild specified library.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
--show-libraries<\/code>
\nDisplays the list of Boost libraries.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
--clean<\/code>
\nRemove targets instead of building.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
-j N<\/code>
\nRun up to N commands in parallel. Only for multiprocessor compilation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
————(PROPERTIES)————<\/th>\n
address-model=32,64,32_64<\/code>
\nExplicitly request either 32-bit or 64-bit code generation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
runtime-link=shared,static<\/code>
\nLinking to the C++ standard library and compiler runtime support libraries.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
link=shared,static<\/code>
\nDetermines if bjam creates shared or static libraries.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
threading=single,multi<\/code>
\nCause the produced binaries to be thread-safe.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
variant=debug,release,profile,debug-python<\/code>
\nChoosing a specific build variant by adding release or debug.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
architecture=x86,ia64,power,combined,combined-x86-power<\/code><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Now boost library is compiled and ready. Next step is RCF framework.
\nThe Official site is http:\/\/deltavsoft.com\/<\/a>
\nDownload and extract RCF-1.3 to your working directory. <\/p>\n

Create a new command-line project with Xcode.
\nDon’t forget to select “C++ stdc++” in Type box!
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Go to “Project” menu and select “Edit project Settings” then select “Build” tag. Search for “Header Search Paths” settings and append RCF and Boost include path in the list. Search for Preprocessor Macro and add “RCF_USE_BOOST_ASIO”. Set also “Library Search Path” to “boost_1_45_0\/stage\/lib”.
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Finally in the main window go to “Source” select and right-click, select “Add”, then “Existing Files”, navigate to “RCF-1.3\/src\/RCF”, find and add “RCF.cpp” file. Also go to “Targets” -> “Link Binary With Libraries” and add “libboost_system.a” and others “.a” files from the “boost_1_45_0\/stage\/lib” directory.
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Open main.cpp and insert test code.<\/p>\n

\r\n#include <iostream>\r\n#include <rcf \/Idl.hpp>\r\n#include <\/rcf><rcf \/RcfServer.hpp>\r\n#include <\/rcf><rcf \/TcpEndpoint.hpp>\r\n\r\nRCF_BEGIN(I_Echo, "I_Echo")\r\nRCF_METHOD_R1(std::string, echo, std::string)\r\nRCF_END(I_Echo)\r\n\r\nclass Echo\r\n{\r\npublic:\r\n    std::string echo(const std::string &s)\r\n    {\r\n        return s;\r\n    }\r\n};\r\n\r\nint main (int argc, char * const argv[])\r\n{\r\n\tEcho echo;\r\n\tRCF::RcfServer server( RCF::TcpEndpoint("127.0.0.1", 50001));\r\n\tserver.bind<I_Echo>(echo);\r\n\tserver.start();\r\n\tstd::cout < < "Server running..." << std::endl;\r\n\r\n\tRcfClient<I_Echo> client( RCF::TcpEndpoint("127.0.0.1", 50001));\r\n\r\n\tstd::string dts;\r\n\tstd::cin >> dts;\r\n\r\n\tstd::string ecs = client.echo(dts);\r\n\r\n\tstd::cout << "Echo: " << ecs << std::endl;\r\n\r\n    return 0;\r\n}\r\n<\/pre>\n
External links:
\nBoost.Build is a high-level build system http:\/\/www.highscore.de\/cpp\/boostbuild\/<\/a>
\nRCF User Guide http:\/\/deltavsoft.com\/w\/RcfUserGuide\/1.3\/index.html<\/a>
\nLinking Custom Static Libraries from your iPhone Xcode Projects http:\/\/wiki.remobjects.com\/wiki\/Linking_Custom_Static_Libraries_from_your_iPhone_Xcode_Projects<\/a>
\nThe Boost C++ Libraries BoostBook Documentation Subset http:\/\/www.boost.org\/doc\/libs\/1_45_0\/doc\/html\/index.html<\/a>
\nCompiling Boost for the iPhone http:\/\/iphone.galloway.me.uk\/2009\/11\/compiling-boost-for-the-iphone\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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