C++, Mac OS X, Xcode 8 : Compile Boost : Set deployment target to OS X 10.11

Question

I am trying to use Boost CPP library on Mac OS X 10.11.6. I downloaded the 1.62 version of Boost from official SourceForge repository. Extracted it and built is as per the docs

Answer 1

To target a minimum OSX version lower than your current OSX version you are building from you need to set the -mmacosx-version-min option. Hence, if you used toolset=darwin you would need to build as:

b2 macosx-version-min=10.11 ...

As that toolset has special handling of the OSX min version. Or, if you used toolset=clang you would need to build as:

b2 cflags=-mmacosx-version-min=10.11 cxxflags=-mmacosx-version-min=10.11 mflags=-mmacosx-version-min=10.11 mmflags=-mmacosx-version-min=10.11 linkflags=-mmacosx-version-min=10.11 ...