Re: [Boost-users] Command Line Options Questions

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Command Line Options Questions
From: Daniel Hofmann (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-03-06 15:50:10

You have to implement operator<< otherwise the compiler does not know how to print (pipe it into an ostream) dsp_type.

You can use Boost.Fusion's I/O feature and BOOST_ADAPT_STRUCT like this
> https://github.com/daniel-j-h/argparse-generic/blob/master/example.cc
to make your life easier.

On March 6, 2016 5:43:27 PM GMT+01:00, Jon Lederman <jonlederman_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have two questions re: the boost command line options library:
>
>1) I am compiling a dynamic library that links to the boost command
>line options library as a shared library.  When I try to unload the
>dynamic library, I find that it isn’t properly unloaded and the boost
>library seems to be causing the issue.  I did find that things were
>helped somewhat when I linked to the boost static libraries.  However,
>it still feels unstable.  Are there any particular things I should know
>about in this context in terms of how my makefile should be linking to
>boost?  Or are there other things I should look at.
>
>2)  When using program options, I am getting the following error.  For
>some reason this seemed to work with the dynamic libraries (or it may
>be a coincidence).  Am I required to implement the << and >> operators?
>It had been compiling previously and stopped.  After googling this
>issue there seems to be a lot of confusion.  Any help would be greatly
>appreciated.
>
>
>
>in file included from /usr/include/boost/any.hpp:27:0,
>         from /usr/include/boost/program_options/value_semantic.hpp:12,
>    from /usr/include/boost/program_options/options_description.hpp:13,
>                 from /usr/include/boost/program_options.hpp:15,
>from
>/usr/local/src/freeswitch/src/mod/applications/mod_sc_dsp/mod_sc_dsp.cpp:23:
>/usr/include/boost/lexical_cast.hpp: In instantiation of 'struct
>boost::detail::deduce_target_char_impl<boost::detail::deduce_character_type_later<dsp_type>
>>':
>/usr/include/boost/lexical_cast.hpp:415:89:   required from 'struct
>boost::detail::deduce_target_char<dsp_type>'
>/usr/include/boost/lexical_cast.hpp:674:92:   required from 'struct
>boost::detail::lexical_cast_stream_traits<std::basic_string<char>,
>dsp_type>'
>/usr/include/boost/lexical_cast.hpp:2363:19:   required from 'static
>Target boost::detail::lexical_cast_do_cast<Target,
>Source>::lexical_cast_impl(const Source&) [with Target = dsp_type;
>Source = std::basic_string<char>]'
>/usr/include/boost/lexical_cast.hpp:2543:50:   required from 'Target
>boost::lexical_cast(const Source&) [with Target = dsp_type; Source =
>std::basic_string<char>]'
>/usr/include/boost/program_options/detail/value_semantic.hpp:89:38:  
>required from 'void boost::program_options::validate(boost::any&, const
>std::vector<std::basic_string<charT> >&, T*, long int) [with T =
>dsp_type; charT = char]'
>/usr/include/boost/program_options/detail/value_semantic.hpp:170:55:  
>required from 'void boost::program_options::typed_value<T,
>charT>::xparse(boost::any&, const std::vector<std::basic_string<charT>
>>&) const [with T = dsp_type; charT = char]'
>/usr/local/src/freeswitch/src/mod/applications/mod_sc_dsp/mod_sc_dsp.cpp:484:1:
>  required from here
>/usr/include/boost/lexical_cast.hpp:388:13: error: static assertion
>failed: Target type is neither std::istream`able nor std::wistream`able
>BOOST_STATIC_ASSERT_MSG((result_t::value ||
>boost::has_right_shift<std::basic_istream<wchar_t>, T >::value),
>           
>
>desc.add_options()
>	("help", "Generates help message")
>	("dsp_type", po::value<dsp_type>(&params.dsp_type)->required(), “")
>
>where dsp_type is this:
>
>struct dsp_type {
>	dsp_type() {}
>	dsp_type(std::string const& val):
>		value(val)
>	{ }
>
>	std::string value;
>};
>
>and I have a validator defined as this:
>
>void validate(boost::any& v,
>              std::vector<std::string> const& values,
>              dsp_type* /* target_type */,
>              int)
>{
>  using namespace boost::program_options;
>  //namespace po = boost::program_options;
>
>  // Make sure no previous assignment to 'v' was made.
>  validators::check_first_occurrence(v);
>
>  // Extract the first string from 'values'. If there is more than
>  // one string, it's an error, and exception will be thrown.
>  std::string const& s = validators::get_single_string(values);
>
>if (s == "ladspa" || s == "audioweaver" || s == "gstreamer" || s ==
>"lv2")  {
>    v = boost::any(dsp_type(s));
>  } else {
>    throw validation_error(validation_error::invalid_option_value);
>  }
>}
>
>
>
>
>
>/usr/local/src/freeswitch/build/modmake.rules:214: recipe for target
>'mod_sc_dsp.lo' failed
>make[1]: *** [mod_sc_dsp.lo] Error 1
>
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