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Kelly Beard
Kelly Beard

Reputation: 702

Boost:;program_options 1.49 - can't link with -lboost_program_options

I'm attempting my first use of Boost anything so I thought I'd start with program_options. I'm developing on a Raspberry Pi running Debian Wheezy. I started by "apt-get install libboost1.49-all" and everything seemed to install correctly. I can see .a and .so libraries in /usr/lib.

/usr/lib/libboost_program_options.a
/usr/lib/libboost_program_options-mt.a -> libboost_program_options.a
/usr/lib/libboost_program_options-mt.so -> libboost_program_options.so.1.49.0
/usr/lib/libboost_program_options.so -> libboost_program_options.so.1.49.0
/usr/lib/libboost_program_options.so.1.49.0

I can compile some example source I found here by using 

g++ boost_program_options.cpp -c

but I cannot get anything to link. I've tried explicitly specifying the library path using no -l and got nothing but several pages of undefined reference errors. I tried another example code and got a compile problem that indicated to me that I wasn't using "g++ -std=c++0x" but that's not the problem either. I'm stuck. I've also tried

 g++ -std=c++0x boostme.cpp -o boostme -L/usr/lib -lboost_program_options

I'm just banging my head against the wall at this point. Among the stackoverflow posts I've seen so far, I'm doing everything correctly. My head hurts. ;-)

Just some sample error messages below. Still poking around.

/tmp/ccTbmurt.o: In function `boost::program_options::error_with_option_name::~error_with_option_name()':
boostme.cpp:(.text._ZN5boost15program_options22error_with_option_nameD2Ev[_ZN5boost15program_options22error_with_option_nameD5Ev]+0x118): undefined reference to `vtable for boost::program_options::error_with_option_name'
/tmp/ccTbmurt.o: In function `boost::program_options::validation_error::validation_error(boost::program_options::validation_error::kind_t, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&, int)':
boostme.cpp:(.text._ZN5boost15program_options16validation_errorC2ENS1_6kind_tERKSsS4_i[_ZN5boost15program_options16validation_errorC5ENS1_6kind_tERKSsS4_i]+0x30): undefined reference to `boost::program_options::validation_error::get_template(boost::program_options::validation_error::kind_t)'

Upvotes: 0

Views: 606

Answers (1)

sehe
sehe

Reputation: 392989

Because the signature of that destructor really should be

    ~error_with_option_name() throw() {}

I'm going to look into my crystal ball and say that - maybe - somewhere you might have #define throw() or similar hidden in your codebase.

That, or you might have conflicting version of the header files in your include paths, which do not correspond to the version of the libraries found at link time

Upvotes: 2

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