Building ACE framework on Mac OS X Mountain Lion.

Download

Source package from ftp://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu/previous_versions/ACE-6.1.0.tar.gz

and

Doxygen document from ftp://download.dre.vanderbilt.edu/previous_versions/ACE-html-6.1.0.tar.gz

Edit your shell environment : in case of bash,

export ACE_ROOT={ACE installation path}            // ACE_wrappers directory.
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ACE_ROOT/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

Create 2 files

1. $ACE_ROOT/ace/config.h

#include "ace/config-macosx-lion.h"
#define  ACE_NEEDS_DL_UNDERSCORE

2. $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU

include $(ACE_ROOT)/include/makeinclude/platform_macosx_lion.GNU
INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local
install_rpath=0

Finally, just execute;

make
make install

The last command, make install, may fails. you may need to run it as a root.

On other platforms, some configurations should be changed.

• DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH => LD_LIBRARY_PATH, LIBPATH, or SHLIB
• ace/config-macosx-lion.h => ace/config-{platform}.h
• $(ACE_ROOT)/include/makeinclude/platform_macosx_lion.GNU => $(ACE_ROOT)/include/makeinclude/platform_{platform}.h
• install_rpath => {NO NEED}

Enjoy it!!