title: How to build Boost as static libraries under Mountain Lion and XCODE 4.6
body: <p>I'm trying to install and use Boost 1_53_0 on MAC OS X Mountain Lion and use it with the latest XCODE 4.6  I want to port a small MS VS MFC C++ app. I developed on Windows to MAC.</p>
  
  <p>Specifically I need to install and build boost as static libraries.  I'm completely new to programming on the MAC.  I understand that XCODE now uses
  LLVM Clang, with libc++ and not GCC.  I've used GCC some on Linux.</p>
  
  <p>I started following the instructions at:
  <a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html</a></p>
  
  <p>but quickly ran into trouble.  Does anyone have detailed instructions for how to install and compile boost statically under Mountain Lion and XCode 4.6?</p>
  
  <p>Below is the terminal input and output showing how far I got.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>
  
  <p>Terminal IO:</p>
  
  <pre><code>./bootstrap.sh --with-bjam=BJAM --with-toolset=TOOLSET  
  users-Mac-mini:boost_1_53_0 user$ ./bootstrap --with-bjam=BJAM --with-toolset=TOOLSET
  
  -bash: ./bootstrap: No such file or directory
  
  users-Mac-mini:boost_1_53_0 user$ ./bootstrap.sh --with-bjam=BJAM --with-toolset=TOOLSET
  
  -n Detecting Python version... 
  
  2.7
  
  -n Detecting Python root... 
  
  /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7
  
  -n Unicode/ICU support for Boost.Regex?... 
  
  not found.
  
  Generating Boost.Build configuration in project-config.jam...
  
  Bootstrapping is done. To build, run:
      ./b2
  
  To adjust configuration, edit 'project-config.jam'.
  
  Further information:
     - Command line help:
       ./b2 --help
     - Getting started guide: 
       &lt;had to remove link in order to post question&gt;
     - Boost.Build documentation:
        &lt;had to remove link in order to post question&gt;
  
  users-Mac-mini:boost_1_53_0 user$ ./b2 link=static threading=multi toolset=darwin cxxflags="-arch i386 -arch x86_64" macosx-version=10.6 stage
  
  -bash: ./b2: No such file or directory
  </code></pre>