Re: [Boost-users] [Filesystem] Need to provide filesystem and system libraries to link

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Filesystem] Need to provide filesystem and system libraries to link
From: Robert Jones (robertgbjones_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-03-07 03:00:43

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:39 PM, Steve Smith <sfpiano_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm upgrading my code from 1.42 to 1.49. Eventually I will upgrade from
> filesystem v2 to v3, but for now I'm stuck using v2. I noticed during my
> recompilation that code using filesystem no longer compiles unless I
> specify both the -lboost_filesystem and -lboost_system linker arguments;
> previously I only had to provide the -lboost_filesystem argument. I'm using
> g++ 4.6.2 on rhel6. I verified this by attempting to compile the file_size
> example that comes with boost. I was wondering if this is a necessary
> change due to the differences between 1.42 and 1.49 or if I'm doing
> something incorrectly.
>

This was discussed previously in

 http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2010/11/64381.php

which may be of some help.

- Rob.

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