[Boost-users] Problem with program_options store()

From: Merrill Cornish (merrill.cornish_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-06 21:32:46

Given this program fragment (based on the Getting Started example) using Boost::program_options compiled with MinGW:

        options_description desc("Program options");
    ...
        variables_map vm;
        store(parse_command_line(argc, argv, desc), vm);

gave the following error (reformatted for readability):

    error: no matching function for call to
        `store(boost::program_options::basic_parsed_options<const char>,
               boost::program_options::variables_map&)'
           
    candidates are:
        store(const boost::program_options::basic_parsed_options<char>&,
              boost::program_options::variables_map&, bool)

        store(const boost::program_options::basic_parsed_options<wchar_t>&,
              boost::program_options::variables_map&)
              
I can add a "true" as a third argument to store(), but the mismatch still remains in the first argument: <const char> versus <char>&.

If I assigned the result of parse_command_line() to an intermediate variable, I can match the &, but the const char versus char still remains.

What is the problem way of calling store()?

Merrill