Re: [Boost-users] Linker (/IDE) errors working with filesystem

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Linker (/IDE) errors working with filesystem
From: Michael Powell (mwpowellhtx_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-04-20 08:58:35

On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Michael Powell <mwpowellhtx_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a novice (perhaps dangerously intermediate) boost user and have
> what I think is a linker error folding in filesystem, which would be a
> great thing to use for, well, file-system-y concerns in our software.

I'm rehashing this a bit getting my bearings straight. I'm thinking
this is more IDE than boost, per se, but if there's an obvious boost
link issue, like I need to rearrange linker order, then I do that and
the problem resolves. Is there a holistic doc that describes the boost
dependencies?

> However, am running into some strange conflicts between std::string
> and boost::filesystem. I can either use one or the other, but not
> both, without (what are possibly) "false positives" in the CodeBench
> IDE.
>
> We are targeting ArchLinux running on ARM cross compiled. As far as I
> know, I accepted the defaults building boost, excepting for python,
> etc. Linking against boost statically.
>
> I also ran across this article and wonder how I can ensure that we're
> linking in a correct order:
> http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/faq/liborder.html, if
> that's a plausible culprit / solution.
>
> I seem to recall there being auto-link support, but I'm not sure this
> will work in a toolchain like GCC (4.7.2).
>
> I want to say that possibly there is an IDE confusion using
> boost::filesystem with std::string, but is a tool chain issue not a
> boost issue.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Powell