Question

Has anyone successfully compiled the performance test application for boost::math library?
link: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_50_0/libs/math/doc/sf_and_dist/html/math_toolkit/perf/perf_test_app.html

I tried compiling by running b2 in the directory and there were lots of errors (over 222000 lines).

First few lines of errors:

../test/erf_data.ipp:6:74: error: wrong number of template arguments (1, should be 2)
In file included from ../../../boost/math/tools/rational.hpp:13:0,
                 from ../../../boost/math/special_functions/log1p.hpp:18,
                 from ../../../boost/math/special_functions/gamma.hpp:35,
                 from test_erf.cpp:9:
../../../boost/array.hpp:60:11: error: provided for ‘template<class T, long unsigned int N> class boost::array’
In file included from test_erf.cpp:13:0:
../test/erf_data.ipp:6:80: error: template argument 1 is invalid
../test/erf_data.ipp:6:91: error: invalid type in declaration before ‘=’ token
../test/erf_data.ipp:7:38: error: ‘SC_’ was not declared in this scope
../test/erf_data.ipp:7:88: error: ‘SC_’ was not declared in this scope
In file included from test_erf.cpp:13:0:
../test/erf_data.ipp:7:136: error: ‘SC_’ was not declared in this scope

Answer 1

Alright, I got it to compile and link properly but it was not with b2. I know the OP asked for b2 but im not familiar with it so i am providing an alternative. This solution assumes you have Cmake installed. (easy to do, just ask dr google.)

If you go to the math tests location:

~/pathToBoost/libs/math/performance

and you add a file called:

CMakeLists.txt

with the following Contents:

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
find_package(Boost COMPONENTS  REQUIRED)
include_directories(${DEPENDENCY_DIR}/libboost/lib)

add_executable(main main.cpp test_reference.cpp)
target_link_libraries (main ${Boost_LIBRARIES} boost_regex)

Then you make a folder called build:

mkdir build

And build it.

cd build
cmake ..
make

Doing this got me successful compilation and building. I get a program called main out of it.

Hope this helps.