[Boost-users] Boost Filesystem Error, am I Linking?

From: Chris Miller (lordsauronthegreat_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-20 22:39:04

More trouble.  Eclipse CDT tells me that when I try and use 
boost::filesystem::initial_path<boost::filesystem::path>() that in 
include/boost/filesystem/operations.hpp on line 503 that I have a 
"undefined reference to 
'boost::filesystem::detail::get_current_path_api(std::string&)'"

I went to Google and found a forum thread where the person wasn't 
linking against Boost's Filesystem library.  I looked in the lib/ 
section under my MinGW installation, however, and found 
libboost_filesystem.a, right where it should be.  Is there still the 
potential for it to not be linking, or am I just not using something 
correctly?  I tried a simpler usage of the same function and got the 
same problem.

I should warn you, I'm still rather green at C++, all my previous 
programming training being in Java.  I'm still getting acclimated to 
C++, pretty quickly, but still every once in a while I run into a wall 
and need someone to pick me up and steer me in the right direction, so 
to speak.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give!