EssentialLibs

The widely-used Boost Project and Open SSL C++ libraries built and compiled for iOS and MacOS with extra features.

Why? It is time-consuming to build these on your apart from the troubleshooting you may need to go trough to get them compile right.

I use them for my current projects. Any other architecture you wanna see, create an issue and let me know.

Built Architectures

• Boost (1.79.0)

  • macOS (x86_64)
  • iOS (arm64, armv7, armv7s) | Including -mt (thread-safe) libraries! such as coroutine-mt and thread-mt
  • Mac-Catalyst (x86_64, arm64)

• OpenSSL (3.0.5)

  • macOS (x86_64)
  • iOS (arm64, armv7, armv7s)

Setup Boost for iOS / macOS

Include headers at EssentialLibs/Boost
Link to libraries located at EssentialLibs/Boost/stage/{ios/macosx/catalyst}/lib

CmakeLists.txt

INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(/pathToEssentialLibs/boost)
LINK_DIRECTORIES(/pathToEssentialLibs/boost/stage/{ios/macosx/catalyst}/lib)

file(GLOB LIBRARIES "/pathToEssentialLibs/boost/stage/{ios/macosx/catalyst}/lib/*.a")
message("LIBRARIES = ${LIBRARIES}")

TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(projectName ${LIBRARIES})

QT Creator .pro file

USER_PATH = /Users/alberto

INCLUDEPATH += "$${USER_PATH}/EssentialLibs/boost"
LIBS += -L"$${USER_PATH}/EssentialLibs/boost/stage/ios/lib"
LIBS += -lboost_system -lboost_thread -lboost_filesystem -lboost_context -lboost_coroutine-mt # add or remove depending on your needs

Setup OpenSSL for iOS / macOS

Include headers at EssentialLibs/OpenSSL/{iphoneos/macosx}/include
Link to libraries located at EssentialLibs/OpenSSL/{iphoneos/macosx}/lib

CmakeLists.txt

INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(/pathToEssentialLibs/OpenSSL/{iphoneos/macosx}/include)
LINK_DIRECTORIES(/pathToEssentialLibs/OpenSSL/{iphoneos/macosx}/lib)

file(GLOB LIBRARIES "/pathToEssentialLibs/OpenSSL/{iphoneos/macosx}/lib/*.a")
message("LIBRARIES = ${LIBRARIES}")

TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(projectName ${LIBRARIES})

QT Creator .pro file

USER_PATH = /Users/alberto

INCLUDEPATH += "$${USER_PATH}/EssentialLibs/OpenSSL/{iphoneos/macosx}/include/"
LIBS += -L$${USER_PATH}/EssentialLibs/OpenSSL/{iphoneos/macosx}/lib
LIBS += -lssl -lcrypto

Issues

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