[Boost-users] Using boost library on MacOSx

Subject: [Boost-users] Using boost library on MacOSx
From: Richard L. Aurbach (rick_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-24 11:50:40

On Jul 24, 2009, at 10:30 AM, boost-users-request_at_[hidden] wrote:

> I have install boost library using this:
> $ sudo port install boost
> It seems download and compile fine on my local machine.
>
> But then i tried to compile a simple echo client example from
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/doc/html/boost_asio/examples.html
>
> I get a bunch of compiler errors. I am using "g++ -o block_client
> blocking_udp_echo_client.cpp "
>
> Here are some of the errors:
> $ g++ -o block_client blocking_udp_echo_client.cpp
> blocking_udp_echo_client.cpp:68:10: error: #include expects "FILENAME"
> or <FILENAME>
> blocking_udp_echo_client.cpp:69:10: error: #include expects "FILENAME"
> or <FILENAME>
> blocking_udp_echo_client.cpp:70:10: error: #include expects "FILENAME"
> or <FILENAME>
> blocking_udp_echo_client.cpp:71:10: error: #include expects "FILENAME"
> or <FILENAME>
> blocking_udp_echo_client.cpp:83: error: stray ‘\’ in program
> blocking_udp_echo_client.cpp:108: error: stray ‘\’ in program
> blocking_udp_echo_client.cpp:112: error: stray ‘\’ in program
>
> Thank you for any help.

 From my experience building software on MacOSX, I suspect that the  
problem is that you have not correctly defined an environment variable  
or something like that. If you write a line like "#include <boost/ 
blah>" and the compiler either cannot correctly resolve 'boost' or if  
the symbol resolves in such a way that an invalid file specification  
is created, then you might get the kind of error message that you are  
seeing.

Another possibility -- if you have code left over from Windoze, look  
for backslashes in file specs. MacOSX is a Unix-like system that  
requires SLASHES, not BACKSLASHES. So lines line "#include <boost 
\header.h> will NOT work.

Cheers,

Rick Aurbach, Ph.D.
President and Chief Engineer
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