November 2001 - Boost-users

try building graph library 1.25.1 with MSV6SP5
by acarsac＠yahoo.fr 13 Dec '01

13 Dec '01

Hi all, I' am trying to build the grap library with MSVC6SP5 (not with STLPORT 4.0, the FAQ said it does not work!). What I done: setting up MSVC vars remove space from directories upgrade jam. build boost. (everything ok exectpt ) changes %BOOST_ROOT%/jamfile //////////////////////////////// project-root ; subinclude libs/graph/build ; subinclude status ; //////////////////////////////// change %BOOST_ROOT%/libs/graph/build : //////////////////////////////// subproject libs/graph/build ; SOURCES = graphviz_graph_lex graphviz_digraph_lex graphviz_graph_parser graphviz_digraph_parser ; lib libbgl-viz : ../src/$(SOURCES).cpp : <define>GRAPHVIZ_GRAPH=boost::GraphvizGraph : <include>$(BOOST_ROOT) : debug <inlining>on ; //////////////////////////////// then: cd %BOOST_ROOT% jam -sBOOST_ROOT=. -sTOOLS="msvc" and getting soething like: msvc-Archive-action libs\graph\build\bin\libbgl- viz\msvc\debug\runtime-link-dynamic\libbgl-viz.lib Microsoft (R) Library Manager Version 6.00.8447 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1992-1998. All rights reserved. graphviz_digraph_parser.obj : fatal error LNK1179: invalid or corrupt file: duplicate comdat "?get_v alue@?$property_value_end@U? $property@W4graph_graph_attribute_t@boost@@V?$map@V?$basic_string@DU? $ch ar_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@V12@U?$less@V? $basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$alloca tor@D@2@@std@@@2@V?$allocator@V?$basic_st2ff4a489" how to fix it, it is the right way to proceed ? Alex

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Installing on Windows 95 with Mingw32 1.1
by karsjens+yahoo＠visionary.com 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

Since I had quite a bit of trouble getting started with boost, I though i would document my difficulties so the install process can be improved and other users having similar difficulties might benefit from my experience. I have placed my story on the boost wiki in the topic InstallingOnMingw32Windows95 Direct url: http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_ wiki/wiki.pl?InstallingOnMingw32Windows95 I hope this is helpful to somebody. -- Brad Karsjens

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regex and tokenizer, something wrong with namspace ?
by John Maddock 30 Nov '01

30 Nov '01

>I am a new user of the boost library (Actually with VC6 SP5 and stlport 4.0). Everything goes well when I use tokenizer and regexp in separated programs. But when I want to use the regex and the tokenizer library together I can not compile. for example, if I take the $(BOOST_ROOT)/libs/tokenizer/examples.cpp from John R. Bandela and just add the include line: #include <boost/regex.hpp> the compiler gives me this error: < regex and tokeniser appear to use different workarounds for the broken VC6 namespace support, and these seem to conflict, IMO regex is using the correct fix - or at least the one we discussed during the early days of boost, but then I would say that :-) - John Maddock http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/

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warning: unknown rule split
by John Merrells 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

I just downloaded boost and the jam.exe on the build page. Executing jam -ftools/build/allyoubase.jam -sTOOLS="msvc" on win2k with msvc 6 I get a screenful of 'warning: unknown rule split'. Anyone experienced this? jam version problem? John [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

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RE: [Boost-Users] graph library
by Jim.Hyslop 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

Ihsan Ali Al Darhi [SMTP:iad929@joinnet.com.jo] wrote: > Can someone of you point me to a good book or URL on graph theory? Ineed > this to understand the BGL. Please. I've found Robert Sedgewick's book "Algorithms in C++" to be quite useful. He has several chapters devoted to graph algorithms. He explains some of the basics, then demonstrates how to implement the algorithms. There are a lot of other algorithms covered as well (string processing, searching and sorting algorithms, geometric algorithms, and so on). -- Jim

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problem compiling boost.function w/ g++ 2.95.3
by Darin Buck 29 Nov '01

29 Nov '01

when trying to compile the following code (cut from the boost.function test suite): #include <boost/bind.hpp> #include <boost/function.hpp> #include <iostream> #include <string> #include <functional> struct X { X(int v) : value(v) {} int twice() const { return 2*value; } int plus(int v) { return value + v; } int value; }; int main() { using namespace boost; boost::function<int, X*> f1(&X::twice); X one(1); cout << "f1(one) = " << f1(&one) << endl; return 0; } _____________________________________________ i get the following errors: /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp: In function `static int boost::detail::function::function_obj_invoker1<int (X::*) () const,int,X *>::invoke(boost::detail::function::any_pointer, X *)': /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:689: instantiated from `boost::function1<int,X *,boost::empty_function_policy,boost::empty_function_mixin,allocator >::assign_to<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const, boost::detail::function::function_obj_tag)' /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:618: instantiated from `boost::function1<int,X *,boost::empty_function_policy,boost::empty_function_mixin,allocator >::assign_to<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const)' /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:463: instantiated from `boost::function1<int,X *,boost::empty_function_policy,boost::empty_function_mixin,allocator >::function1<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const)' /usr/local/include/boost/function.hpp:459: instantiated from `boost::function<int,X *,boost::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable, boost::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable,bo ost::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable,boos t::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable,boost: :detail::function::unusable>::function<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const)' hello.C:21: instantiated from here /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:272: pointer to member function called, but not in class scope /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:272: warning: control reaches end of non-void function `boost::detail::function::function_obj_invoker1<int (X::*)() const,int,X *>::invoke(boost::detail::function::any_pointer, X *)' /usr/local/include/g++-3/stl_alloc.h: At top level: /usr/local/include/g++-3/stl_alloc.h: In instantiation of `allocator<int (X::*)() const>': /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_base.hpp:131: instantiated from `boost::detail::function::functor_manager<int (X::*) () const,allocator<boost::function_base> >' /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:691: instantiated from `boost::function1<int,X *,boost::empty_function_policy,boost::empty_function_mixin,allocator >::assign_to<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const, boost::detail::function::function_obj_tag)' /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:618: instantiated from `boost::function1<int,X *,boost::empty_function_policy,boost::empty_function_mixin,allocator >::assign_to<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const)' /usr/local/include/boost/function/function_template.hpp:463: instantiated from `boost::function1<int,X *,boost::empty_function_policy,boost::empty_function_mixin,allocator >::function1<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const)' /usr/local/include/boost/function.hpp:459: instantiated from `boost::function<int,X *,boost::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable, boost::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable,bo ost::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable,boos t::detail::function::unusable,boost::detail::function::unusable,boost: :detail::function::unusable>::function<int (X::*)() const>(int (X::* &)() const)' hello.C:21: instantiated from here /usr/local/include/g++-3/stl_alloc.h:750: `allocator<int (X::*)() const>::address(int (X::* &)() const) const' has already been declared in `allocator<int (X::*)() const>' make: *** [hello.o] Error 1 ___________________________________ this code should compile (its just copied from the test code) and my compiler setup should work according to the boost compiler status page. Any ideas what i'm doing wrong? -Darin Buck

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regex and tokenizer, something wrong with namspace ?
by acarsac＠yahoo.fr 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Hi, I am a new user of the boost library (Actually with VC6 SP5 and stlport 4.0). Everything goes well when I use tokenizer and regexp in separated programs. But when I want to use the regex and the tokenizer library together I can not compile. for example, if I take the $(BOOST_ROOT)/libs/tokenizer/examples.cpp from John R. Bandela and just add the include line: #include <boost/regex.hpp> the compiler gives me this error: Compiling... examples.cpp c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98 \include\boost\token_functions.hpp(264) : error C2668: 'ispunct' : ambiguous call to overloaded function c:\program files\microsoft visual studio\vc98 \include\boost\token_functions.hpp(257) : while compiling class- template member function 'bool __thiscall boost::char_delimiters_separator<char,class _STL::char_traits<char> >::is_ret(char) const' Error executing cl.exe. examples.exe - 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) any idees ? Alexandre

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Typelists.
by jamescurran＠mvps.org 28 Nov '01

28 Nov '01

Over on the Boost Developer group, there a lot of talk about how to best implement a typelist. Just so I can follow that discussion, could someone give me the basic thumbnail sketch of what exactly a typelist is, and what they are used for?

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Real-world applications using Boost - results
by Björn Karlsson 27 Nov '01

27 Nov '01

I recently posted a question about "real-world" use of Boost. The (surprisingly few) answers I received can be found at the end of the e-mail. I think it is safe to say that the usage is more widely spread than the answers indicate. [Note: I have excluded the names from the e-mails, although not explicitly asked to do so.] Summary: There were replies from 8 Boosters. It seems that the lightweight utility classes are the most popular, likely due to the fact that their impact on existing systems is easily manageable. Thank you for your answers! Bjorn Karlsson Reply ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Using some small parts of it. Selected because it lets you pick and chose things to use from a large set of (relatively) small components/tools rather than ending up "buying into" some grand scheme of things. Well designed small interfaces rather than including the kitchen sink, making it easier for people to pick up/maintain code later.... Did what I needed to do at the time.... Note that the things I have elected to use so far have been small and intended to reduce the risk of mistakes (eg operators, traits) rather than anything vast. Reply [translated] ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// We have just started to use Boost for converting a Python prototype to C++. The experience is still limited, but the results after a few days of work are very good. Reply ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I'm using Boost heavily in FEMTown (www.femtown.org) FEMTown is an open-source finite-element framework in development. We're using Boost because it provides stable and slim functionality that helps us making FEMTown more efficient, flexible and robust. (although our choice of C++ for a scientific application is even kinda controversial) Reply ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// At this moment, I'm using the Boost lexical_cast in one of our commercial software products (Pilot - see http://www.leitch.com/custserv/products.nsf/lookup/CCS-PILOT) I needed to convert from integers to text for transmission across the network, then back from text to integer value. I had been using strstream, but the lexical_cast wrapped all the complexity up for me. I chose Boost because it's portable (our software runs on Windows NT and on embedded software using gcc). I knew there is a good chance that lexical_cast will become a standard keyword. As I learn more about the various libraries that are available, I will likely find appropriate places to use them. Reply ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// My group is currently using Boost on one project as an experiment. We do cross-platform Macintosh/Windows development and it was valuable to have a tested library that worked on our two main development platforms. We have been phasing different parts of Boost in as come across problems that Boost will solve. As a community I find Boost a source of best practices that I have tried to implement in our workplace. Reply ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// We've been using Boost at Zetec for over two years. Initially just for shared_ptr, but since expanding to lexical_cast, iterator_adaptors, tokenizer, and others. If you need any other info, let me know. Reply ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I am starting a new project using boost. It is a financial risk-management engine. I cannot tell you a lot about it yet. We are a team of 8 developers, 4 developing the backend and 4 developing the interfaces. The product will hopefully be a big success in the financial world as it is developed in cooperation with some the best people of the financial industry. It is a 12 months development effort using the XP development process. boost will be used to provide some utility classes (smart pointers, anys, threads ... ). The engine will run on Solaris and Linux. A future version on Windows may exist in the future. Reply ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// We've used small parts of Boost in a digital video distribution back-end system; the system was developed by a client of us(us=CMG). If you want names in your summary I'd have to ask for permissions from them.

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(no subject)
by Paul Grenyer 25 Nov '01

25 Nov '01

Paul Grenyer pjgrenyer(a)iee.org

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