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Alex
Alex

Reputation: 44345

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_thread-mt

I am trying to link a project with the following command:

g++  build/test.o -o bin/test -pthread -L lib  -L /home/alexander/opt/lib -lboost_thread-mt

which results in the following errors: 

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_thread-mt
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

However, the boost libraries are installed in the directory /home/alexander/opt/lib. Why does the linker do not find the boost libraries? I also tried to link with -I instead if -L with the same outcome...

Content of /home/alexander/opt/lib is /home/alexander/opt/lib/boost_1_57_0.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 8256

Answers (1)

ImanV
ImanV

Reputation: 29

change libboost_thread-mt to libboost_thread, first find the address of libboost_thread.so and libboost_thread.a then make softlinks to these files in the same address, so it should be:

ln -s /...libboostSourceFiles.../libboost_thread.so /..RequestTOmtFiles.../libboost_thread-mt.so

it works for other libboost -mt files too, like serialization , iostreams, programoptions

Upvotes: 1

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