Re: [Boost-users] Library & Header file paths on Windows with Boost

From: jayc.lawrence_at_[hidden]
Date: 2007-11-29 04:36:10

Hi John,

Wow.. lol you dont know how much time I spent trying to get this working 
all over something so simple! Lets hope this post serves useful for 
others getting this!

So any others reading this.. drop that slash!

g++ -s -Ic:\boost simplels.cpp -o test.exe -Lc:\boost\lib 
-lboost_filesystem-mgw34-d-1_34_1

Now works perfectly ! :)

Thank you John for your help.

Jay

John Maddock wrote:
> jayc.lawrence_at_[hidden] wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> This post is not really 100% boost specific but I am trying to compile
>> using boost libraries and I thought I'd give this newsgroup a shot. I
>> want to know what have others done to avoid the circles I've gone in
>> to get this simple program compiled.
>>
>> I compiled boost to "c:\boost\" and I have my MinGW installed in
>> "c:\devel\MinGW\" however if I attempt to compile using:
>>
>>    g++ -v -Ic:\boost\ simplels.cpp -Lc:\boost\lib\
>> -lboost_filesystem-mgw34-d-1_34_1
>>
>> It would result in failing to include the header files and I noticed:
>>
>>    ignoring nonexistant directory "c:/boost/"
>>
>> Am I going crazy here or does it appear that the compiler cannot
>> access anything beyond its default include paths?
> 
> If I remember correctly Mingw can't cope with path that end in a /, so 
> try: -I c:\boost and hopefully that'll fix things :-)
> 
> John.