Re: [Boost-users] Linking errors

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Linking errors
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-02-08 17:36:43

AMDG

On 02/08/2012 09:28 AM, Abdo Haji-Ali wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I downloaded and compiled boost successfully by calling b2 (version
> 1.47 for various reasons)
> Then I tried compiling my program (which uses both Boost.MPI and
> Boost.Serialization) using
> 
> mpic++ -I/home/abdo/boost/ -L/home/abdo/boost/stage/lib/
> -lboost_serialization -lboost_mpi main.cpp
> 
> But I keep getting linking errors in boost, for example:
> undefined reference to `boost::mpi::communicator::size() const'
> undefined reference to `typeinfo for boost::archive::detail::basic_oserialize
> 
> I have openmpi installed and I'm able to run simple non-boost OpenMPI programs.
> I'm also sure that the libraries in my stage library are the ones
> used, since if I remove the -L argument
> the compiler complains about -lboost_mpi and -lboost_serialization
> 
> Is there something I'm missing here?
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu 11.10

The linker requires that libraries come after
anything that depends on them.  Try
mpic++ ... main.cpp -lboost_mpi -lboost_serialization

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe