[Boost-users] Please help: Getting started with Boost

From: Nishant Mittal (nishttal_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-06 13:40:58

I have a 64 bit red hat linux (also 64 bit) box. 

1) I downloaded boost from  

boost_1_34_1.tar.bz2
<http://downloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost_1_34_1.tar.bz2?modtime=1185241
108&big_mirror=0> 

2) Unizipped and installed it (./configure , make install ) everything
worked fine.

 

Questions:

1)       How do I check if I now have the 64 bit version of boost?

2)       I see that all libraries were put into /usr/local/lib and I can
compile my hello world code with the following command.

*         $ g++ hello.cpp -lboost_thread-gcc41-mt-1_34_1

but when I try to run the created a.out file I get a file not found error
msg.

*         $ ./a.out 

*         ./a.out: error while loading shared libraries:
libboost_thread-gcc41-mt-1_34_1.so.1.34.1: cannot open shared object file:
No such file or directory

I did an ldd and this is the output.

            $ ldd a.out 

        libboost_thread-gcc41-mt-1_34_1.so.1.34.1 => not found

        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x0000003a6aa00000)

        libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x0000003a5a400000)

        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x0000003a68600000)

        libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x0000003a5a000000)

        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003a59c00000)

 

I am stuck and cannot make progress. I appreciate any help on this.

 

Thanks

Nishant