[Boost-build] Beman Dawes "simple_ls" program, not compiling on Eclipse CDT4.02 yet again...

From: Petrus B. van Bork (pvanbork_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-09 15:17:45

Dear Colleagues:

I continue to struggle - fruitlessly - to correctly compile the 
"simple_ls" program.  I would like to remind those reading this post 
that this is not my code, it is an example from the getting started with 
boost materials.  I would also like to note that I have spent many  
hours with the documentation so suggestions that I RTFM are not terribly 
constructive.  If I have mis-read something in the documentation, that 
would, of course, be different. 

I have spent several more person-days on this without success.  I am 
running the mingw 3.4.5. over Win XP and my IDE is Eclipse 4.0.2

Here is my console output:

**** Build of configuration Debug for project BoostTest ****

mingw32-make all
'Building target: BoostTest.exe'
'Invoking: MinGW C++ Linker'
g++ 
-L"e:\BoostCPlusLibraries\bin\boost_1_34_1\bin.v2\libs\filesystem\build\gcc-mingw-3.4.5\debug\-lboost_filesystem-mgw34-d-1_34_1" 
-Wl,--out-implib=boost -o"BoostTest.exe"  ./main.o   
-l"e:\BoostCPlusLibraries\boost_1_34_1\bin.v2\libs\filesystem\build\gcc-mingw-3.4.5\debug\boost_filesystem-mgw34-d-1_34_1.a"
e:\mingw\bin\..\lib\gcc\mingw32\3.4.5\..\..\..\..\mingw32\bin\ld.exe: 
cannot find 
-le:\BoostCPlusLibraries\boost_1_34_1\bin.v2\libs\filesystem\build\gcc-mingw-3.4.5\debug\boost_filesystem-mgw34-d-1_34_1.a
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
mingw32-make: *** [BoostTest.exe] Error 1

        I have tried every imaginable combination of paths to the 
libraries, places to put them, etc., etc.  I have spent much time on the 
'net looking for alternate documentation or answers.  I have even 
re-installed everything, re bjammed you name it.  No matter what I do, I 
get the same, error "cannot find etc..."

        Just a note when I bjam the directories I get installed do NOT 
match the online documentation on the getting started pages on 
boost.org.  For instance, I have NO "lib" directory, as shows in 
documentation both on the boost.org site and elsewhere.  The closest I 
come is "libs", as you can see in the console output.  Am I supposed to 
manually create this directory?  Do I need other libraries besides the 
filesystem library to run this?  I need, badly to manipulate a huge 
number of directories and I thought that this was the time to adopt 
Boost, while getting the functionality I needed.  I really do need to 
get simple_ls running and get on to learning how to use this 
functionality.  Any help would be very, very, very much appreciated my 
frustration levels are sky-high.  I know there has to be a simple 
answer, I do not have it and, again, I can't find it on the 'net anywhere.

Any pointers to what is going wrong would be much appreciated.

Best,

Petrus