Re: [Boost-users] How is asio::error supposed to work? Tutorial is generating compiler errors

From: Matt Gruenke (mgruenke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-27 20:08:26

I believe this is one of the areas that changed in the Boost fork of 
ASIO, which it sounds like you might be using.  I recommend trying this 
documentation, instead:

    http://asio.sourceforge.net/boost_asio_0_3_7/libs/asio/doc/

Matt

console shark wrote:
> I am trying to compile the tutorial for boost asio, specifically the 
> daytime client 
> (http://asio.sourceforge.net/asio-0.3.7/doc/tutorial/tutdaytime1.html).
>
> The following line generates a compile time error. Compiler is VC8.
>
> Maybe I'm missing something but is this tutorial out of date? Because 
> I also don't see any implementation of assign_error method which is 
> also liberally used throughout the explanations on that page.
> boost::asio::error error = boost::asio::error::host_not_found; <http://asio.sourceforge.net/asio-0.3.7/doc/reference/a00135.html>
>
>  error C2440:
>  'initializing' : cannot convert from 'const boost::system::error_code' to 'boost::asio::error'
> 1>        No constructor could take the source type, or constructor overload resolution was ambiguous
>