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Boost 1.62.0 with Eclipse neon CDT on Windows 7 [message #1750645] Fri, 23 December 2016 17:16 Go to next message
Hans Scharank is currently offline Hans ScharankFriend
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Can anyone please give me a step by step guide how to integrate Boost in the current CDT?
I installed Boost and I can compile simple boost programs which rely on header files only, but as soon as I want to include a library, I get compiler errors about several boost::regex not found. I included the stage\lib path in /L and the corresponding library file in /l (without the 'bin' prefix and without extension). It simply won't work! I tried every single file from the directory, with and without prefix and extension, added pretty much any boost directory in the compiler and linker include and library directories, still nothing. I followed several suggestions from google but nothing works!
This is so annoying!!!
Re: Boost 1.62.0 with Eclipse neon CDT on Windows 7 [message #1750680 is a reply to message #1750645] Sun, 25 December 2016 01:25 Go to previous message
David VavraFriend
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"nothing works!" isn't helpful. What have you tried?
You need to supply information indicating the problem. A complete build log would be helpful.

In general, you need to set the linker and compiler tool settings and also need to set the header locations in Project --> Properties --> C/C++ General --> Preprocessor Include Paths, Macros etc.

With Windows whether you are using MinGW or cygwin or Microsoft Visual
Under Linux there is no boost library with a 'bin' prefix. They are all 'lib*'.
Under Linux (at least in my installation) for the regex library you need -L/usr/lib64 (which is already searched so unnecessary) and -lboost-regex

I don't have MinGW or cygwin to test so can't say what the actual library names and paths are.
But his might help: http://stackoverflow.com/a/14180152/3312726
And: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_62_0/more/getting_started/windows.html
Notably: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_62_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#link-your-program-to-a-boost-library


Using a Linux variant (e.g. MinGW): http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_62_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_62_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html#link-your-program-to-a-boost-library

Both show how to use boost outside of Eclipse. Once you can do that then adding it to Eclipse should be easy.

Assuming you are using the GCC loader, you can specify the complete path and name of the library as an object file circumventing the need to use -L
and -l or the Window's equivalents. For Linux this means: "/usr/lib64/libboost_regex.a" for the static library. This is suggested in the first link.

Under Windows, you can try "dir *regex*.* /s" from a top directory to locate the library file.

[Updated on: Mon, 26 December 2016 15:53]

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