Question

I want to make network simulator shawn.exe with cygwin and that simulator need to boost library
when i call make for it in the linking step procedure break.
please help me,
this is all result of make command:

{.
.
[100%] Built target shawnlib
Scanning dependencies of target shawn
[100%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/shawn.dir/frontend/console/con_main.o
[100%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/shawn.dir/apps/apps_init.o
Linking CXX executable shawn.exe
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_regex-gcc-mt
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_date_time-gcc-mt
/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-cygwin/4.5.3/../../../../i686-pc-cygwin/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_thread-gcc-mt
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
CMakeFiles/shawn.dir/build.make:111: recipe for target `shawn.exe' failed
make[2]: *** [shawn.exe] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:60: recipe for target `CMakeFiles/shawn.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/shawn.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:72: recipe for target `all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
}

Answer 1

Make sure you have the libboost-devel Cygwin package installed. Re-run Cygwin’s setup.exe and install that package (as well as its dependencies, which should automatically get installed if you don’t explicitly exclude them).