Re: [boost] Unable to find the boost.fsm library and turnstile example

Subject: Re: [boost] Unable to find the boost.fsm library and turnstile example
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-09-02 13:43:52

On Tuesday 02 September 2014 13:31:57 Aniket Pugaonkar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to implement a simple fsm using boost. i read the boost fsm doc
> 
> http://boost-extension.redshoelace.com/docs/boost/fsm/doc/state_machine.html
> http://boost-extension.redshoelace.com/docs/boost/fsm/doc/reference.html
> 
> but I couldnt locate the header files.
> Are the fsm library and other template classes located in boost statechart
> folder ? When I did a find in the subdirectories, I found this:
> 
> 
>      boost version: 1.55
> 
>      find . -name state_machine.hpp
>      ./boost/msm/back/state_machine.hpp
>      ./boost/spirit/home/support/detail/lexer/state_machine.hpp
>      ./boost/statechart/state_machine.hpp
>      ./libs/mpl/example/fsm/state_machine.hpp
> 
> (1) Which one should I use to implement a simple FSM?
> (2) Also I couldnt find the turnstile example which they said is supposed
> to be in libs/fsm/examples/Turnstile  folder.
> 
> Can anyone please tell me the correct path and location ?

Boost.FSM was not accepted into Boost, so you won't find it there. I basically 
dropped the library, so you should probably take a look at Boost.Statechart 
and Boost.MSM for an alternative.