Question

I’m using OS X 10.7.3. I’ve been playing with the boost headers for a while now and i wanted to move onto using the Boost.Filesystem lib however it keeps throwing this message at me:

Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "boost::system::generic_category()", referenced from:
      __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)in ccOhIhNG.o
      boost::filesystem3::detail::create_directories(boost::filesystem3::path const&,     boost::system::error_code*)in libboost_filesystem.a(operations.o)
      boost::filesystem3::detail::canonical(boost::filesystem3::path const&,     boost::filesystem3::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)in     libboost_filesystem.a(operations.o)
  "boost::system::system_category()", referenced from:
      __static_initialization_and_destruction_0(int, int)in ccOhIhNG.o
      (anonymous namespace)::error(bool, boost::system::error_code const&,     boost::filesystem3::path const&, boost::system::error_code*, std::basic_string<char,     std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)in libboost_filesystem.a(operations.o)
      (anonymous namespace)::error(bool, boost::filesystem3::path const&,     boost::system::error_code*, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,     std::allocator<char> > const&)in libboost_filesystem.a(operations.o)
      (anonymous namespace)::error(bool, boost::filesystem3::path const&,     boost::filesystem3::path const&, boost::system::error_code*, std::basic_string<char,     std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> > const&)in libboost_filesystem.a(operations.o)
      boost::filesystem3::detail::dir_itr_close(void*&, void*&)in     libboost_filesystem.a(operations.o)
      boost::filesystem3::detail::directory_iterator_increment(boost::filesystem3::directory_itera    tor&, boost::system::error_code*)in libboost_filesystem.a(operations.o)
      boost::filesystem3::detail::directory_iterator_construct(boost::filesystem3::directory_itera    tor&, boost::filesystem3::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)in     libboost_filesystem.a(operations.o)
      ...
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

i get this when i try to compile using this:

g++ -o test main.cpp -I -l/opt/local/include ~/boost/libs/libboost_filesystem.a

So i went back to the boost.org tutorials and tried out the regex example. It worked perfectly using this:

g++ -o test main.cpp -I -l/opt/local/include ~/boost/libs/libboost_regex.a

Answer 1

try

g++ -o test main.cpp -I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib  -lboost_filesystem