[Boost-users] [program_options] undefined reference using mingw

From: Johan Simon Seland (johan.seland_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-03 04:22:20

Hello all.

I am trying to port a C++ program developed on Linux/g++ to Windows using 
MinGW.
Boost was a joy to compile using MinGW and bjam and my program compiles 
fine, but failes during linking.

The offending function calls seem to be two calls to program_options::store:
po::store(po::command_line_parser(argc, 
argv).options(desc).positional(p).run(), vm);

po::store(po::parse_command_line(argc, argv, desc), vm);

Commenting out these two lines makes my program compile, but without parsing 
the command line of course.
This problem seems to be related to mingw lacking wchar support. Apparently, 
Valadimir Prus made some patches for this in 2004.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/boost/2082829

I have recompiled program_options with his patched, but to no avail. Is 
anyone successfully using program_options using mingw?

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`boost::program_options::
detail::cmdline::run()'
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