Trying to workaround libboost file copy bug

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#1

Hello,

Since I installed sc3.13, the help browser is broken (ERROR: Primitive '_FileCopy' failed. when starting scide - boost needs upgrade to higher version to fix · Issue #5865 · supercollider/supercollider · GitHub) (my /home is on a different partition). I used the online help, but now I notice my project is broken too when it try to copy files. So I decided to build boost myself.

The problem is I don’t know how to tell supercollider build to use my boost library (in /usr/local). I noticed there is a boost library included in sc source, but i don’t know where to find the version number so I don’t know if it is the bugged version or a newer one. I don’t remember if i used the internal version or the system one when compiling.

How can I tell cmake to use my own compiled version ?

#2

have you tried building @shiihs fork from source?

There are a bunch of other solutions in the thread on github at the link in yr post as well…

#3

First, you should use your system’s package manager’s boost package rather than building boost yourself. This avoids a whole set of potential headaches.

Then, you should pass -DSYSTEM_BOOST=ON when configuring the project with Cmake. That should be enough to pull in the system version.

Edit to add: if you encounter problems you may need to patch the source yourself and/or pull in patches from the branch shared above.

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#4

Sorry I forgot to say that i’m on ubuntu 22.04 and the libboost package is still on version 1.74 so i can’t use it

No I didn’t see it, i will try it, thanks!

#5

It works!!! thanks

#6

wtf Ubuntu… that was 2 years old when it shipped.

great!

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