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boost::shared_ptr and stl algorithms
by Bill Eidson 15 Apr '05

15 Apr '05

std::vector< boost::shared_ptr<T> > TVec; I want to write a function object to run std::for_each. to do somework against members of T and accumulate results in functor. My attempts have failed in VC7 with memory errors in my operator() method. struct fo { bool operator()( boost::shared_ptr<T>& t ) { return true; } }; Thanks in advance bille

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Will libraries built on WinNT run on Win98? (MinGW)
by Reed Hedges 31 Mar '05

31 Mar '05

I know that Win98 is not really supported, but is there any chance that libraries (specifically thread and regex) that were build on WinNT using MinGW work on Win98 (in MinGW)? My guess is no, but has anyone tried it? thanks reed

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BGL and reversing / moving edges
by joshrose 17 Dec '03

17 Dec '03

G'day, I was hoping someone might be able to tell me if they've run into any situations using BGL where they needed to move (or reverse (i.e. flip the source and target)) an edge within a graph implemented as an adjacency_list. I'm working on an implementation of an algorithm for max. weight bipartite matching ("the assignment problem"), and one of the assumptions in the algorithm is that non-matched edges are directed from one subgraph, A, to the other subgraph, B, and matched edges are directed the other way. Over the course of growing the matching, a simple way to add and remove edges from the candidate set is just to reverse the edge, thus the need for some way to reverse the edge within BGL. I don't think I can just remove and then re-add the edge in the other direction, primarily because doing so will (I believe) invalidate any edge_descriptors referring to that edge. In particular, there are property maps keeping track of the weight of edges, the predecessors of certain nodes, etc. that use edge descriptors as keys. I've spent a fair bit of time reading the documentation and looking through the implementation of adjacency_lists (incl. edge_list_impl), and I'm not really sure of a way to either move an edge directly within a graph, or even to create a new edge from another s.t. they have the same edge_descriptor (in general a bad thing, probably). Anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks, -Josh

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travelling salesman for BGL ?
by Philippe Guglielmetti 13 Nov '03

13 Nov '03

I'm looking for a free "travelling salesman problem" solver. Does anyone know if something exists for the Boost Graph Library ? I found nothing in the book... Is anybody interested in porting existing code, for example http://www.math.princeton.edu/tsp/concorde.html on BGL ? -- Philippe Guglielmetti - www.dynabits.com

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Compile Boost.thread libraries has a static library (.lib) with msvc 6 ?
by Huck finn 01 Oct '03

01 Oct '03

Hi everyone, I'm a total newbie to boost, but I've got to developp a project that could use some of the powerful boost libraries, so I'm trying to make a move in that way... Ok, most of the boost libraries I can build in a static way and create (.lib) files with Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 for my partners to use . But I am having a problem doing the same thing with the Boost.Thread libraries... First question : Is it possible to build this librairy in a (.lib) file with msvc 6.0? I'm getting tons of warnings concerning "dllexport" problems, but the (.lib) are still created. I was wondering if someone could help me understanding/fixing the warning problems : warning C4275: non dll-interface class 'boost::noncopyable' used as base for dll-interface class 'boost::detail::condition_impl' c:\wrk\common\boost-1.30.2\boost\noncopyable.hpp(22) : see declaration of 'noncopyable' warning C4273: 'thread::thread' : inconsistent dll linkage. dllexport assumed. I really need to avoid using .dll in this project, so builing this static library is very important to me... Thanks in advance, Simon _________________________________________________________________ MSN Search, le moteur de recherche qui pense comme vous ! http://fr.ca.search.msn.com/

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bind and Constructor invocation?
by Jeff Flinn 30 Sep '03

30 Sep '03

I don't see any way to use bind to directly construct an object, other than calling a function that returns an object. Or am I missing something? Like something similar to Spirit::Phoenix construct_<>? This would avoid manually creating these factory functions. -- Jeff Flinn Applied Dynamics, International

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BGL runtime crash with g++ -O2 optimizer.
by Franck.Caron＠infineon.com 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Hi all, I have a problem while compiling BGL with gcc 3.1.1 on solaris7 with the -O2 optimizer option. All is ok with -g (debug) but -O2 produce a crash at runtime Here is a code that reproduce the problem : #include <boost/graph/adjacency_list.hpp> #include <boost/graph/properties.hpp> #include <iostream> #include <string> using namespace std; using namespace boost; struct VertexPropertyTag { typedef vertex_property_tag kind; }; typedef property<VertexPropertyTag,string> VertexProp; typedef adjacency_list<setS,vecS,bidirectionalS,VertexProp> Graph; int main(){ Graph graph; graph_traits<Graph>::vertex_descriptor v1 = add_vertex(string("s1"),graph); graph_traits<Graph>::vertex_descriptor v2 = add_vertex(string("s2"),graph); add_edge(v1,v2,graph); graph_traits<Graph>::edge_iterator eIt,eItEnd; tie(eIt,eItEnd) = edges(graph); for(;eIt != eItEnd;++eIt){ cout << "->" << *eIt << endl; } return 0; } With g++ -Wall -pedantic -fPIC -g -c -o solaris7/gcc3.1/Main.o Main.cc -I. -I/opt/boost_1.30.2 g++ -fPIC -o solaris7/gcc3.1/testbug.exe solaris7/gcc3.1/Main.o -L /opt/boost_1.30.2/libs/gcc3.1/release/single-thread -R -Wl,-Bdynamic Here is the result : shell> solaris7/gcc3.1/testbug.exe ->(0,1) It is OK With g++ -Wall -pedantic -fPIC -O2 -c -o solaris7/gcc3.1/Main.o Main.cc -I. -I/opt/boost_1.30.2 g++ -fPIC -o solaris7/gcc3.1/testbug.exe solaris7/gcc3.1/Main.o -L /opt/boost_1.30.2/libs/gcc3.1/release/single-thread -R -Wl,-Bdynamic Here is the result : shell> solaris7/gcc3.1/testbug.exe ->(0,1) ->(0,0) Bus error (core dumped) Does anybody already had this ? Is it a bug in my code, in BGL or in gcc ? Thanks for the help. Franck

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Re: [Boost-users] Trying to get boost threads working under visual .NET
by John Maddock 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

> I'm trying to get the Boost thread library working under Microsoft .Net, > here is what I've done and the problems I'm seeing. > > I am currnetly using the regex lib and the date/time classes, which are > working. I now want to start creating threads so I follow the given > example, and started to get linker errors for xtime_get and > boost::thread::sleep. So I look around, and do the bjam -sTOOLS=msvc in > the appropriate threads directory and get no errors. It still won't > link. > I notice that the only boost*.lib files in my vc7\lib dir were from > boost_regexp, so I copy 4 files boost_thread(d).dll/lib into that > directory. I then explicitely add boost_threadd.lib into the project's > link. Ok, so now my application compiles AND links, but it wants > boost_threadd.dll when it executes. So I copy boost_threadd.dll into the > projects Debug directory wehre the .exe compiles to. Now when I run it, I > get a dialog box saying the application failed because > "boost_regex_vc7_mdid.dll" can not be loaded! the regex stuff was working > FINE and I don't think I did anyhting to change it. > > So can someone shed some light on this for me, please ? Why does it now > want the boost_regex dll? Thanks for any input.. if I've missed some > crucial documentation somewhere, sorry. If you changed your project build options from using one of the static C runtimes to using the dll runtime then that would be the problem, define BOOST_REGEX_STATIC_LINK when building if you want to static link to boost.regex. John. --------------------------------- Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger

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regex and stream processing
by John Maddock 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

Message forwarded from Dave Gomboc: > We have a stream of text data (actually it is a chunked > response of a webserver, but it might be a file or > something...) The data size may be very large and we need to > do some find/replace in this stream using regular > expressions. It is not possible to load entire stream into > the memory. I'm not even hope that Regex++ could work with > such kind of streams, but maybe someone can suggest me a > solution to this problem? This is possible without much trouble _if_ the text strings you are trying to match will fit into main memory, even if all the data won't. Use a std::list as a buffer, so that deleting and inserting is inexpensive, and you don't have to perform copies and update iterators when reading in more input. Fill your (sliding window) buffer, then regex it, using the partial match feature whenever you have not already detected the end of the file. If a match occurs, any characters occuring before the match can be processed (serialized to disk, or whatever) and removed from the buffer. Repeat this looking for a match until you reach the end of current input. You'll either have "no match" or "partial match" at this point: remove non-matching characters (that could be all of them) at this point, then re-fill your buffer with more data and keep going. If you're just doing one substitution, that's fine, but if more, there are a few things to keep in mind. I have done over 60 distinct substitutions at a time on a stream of 0.1 gigabytes using this technique, and it works quite quickly. (I used a buffer that held about 1 million characters (2^20), but I also tested with buffers as small as 256 characters -- the strings I was matching were not large). Just read in data, process all the substitutions in order, write the data out and repeat. If you're doing multiple substitutions, you (of course) can't flush any data from memory until you've tried all the substitutions on the current region of interest. Also, for each later substituion, the current region of interest shrinks because you have to acknowledge partial matches from earlier subsitutions. For example, say that there is no partial match at the end of substituions 1 through 6 (there might have been full matches where substitution was performed, that's okay.) But substituion 7 has a partial match at the last five characters. Now, your region of interest for substitution 8 is five characters smaller, because you don't want to process those last five characters because substitution 7 might change them once you've read in more input. The order of your substituions is important if the outputs of some desired subsitutions overlap with the inputs of others. If you are not grokking my meaning, I can fish around for the source code. Perhaps it's easier to explain in code than in words, my code for the entire process is maybe 10 or 15 lines. An alternative is to try to do some streambuf hacking, but the above method was simpler and adequate for my purposes. Dave --------------------------------- Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger

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regex problem
by John Maddock 29 Sep '03

29 Sep '03

> The last assert always fails, because regex::match insists on including the > space after the ":" in the second match result, which seems wrong to me. > I've tried giving various different combinations of flags to the regex ctor, > although from what I can tell from the documentation the default flags > should work. This is with VC7 and boost 1.30.2. For comparison, perl > (5.6.1) does not seem to have this problem, as the following script > illustrates: > > #!/usr/bin/perl > print "matches: <$1> <$2>\n" if ('foo: bar' =~ /([\w]+):[\s]*(.*)/); > > Is there any way to get the behavior I want? This is the difference between perl and POSIX leftmost-longest matching rules showing itself (the next release will default to perl rules and do what you want, but of course that doesn't help you now), basically non-marked sections are neither greedy nor non-greedy under POSIX rules, so regex finds the match it does because it makes $2 further to the left than the alternative (without effecting the overall match). You can get the effect you want by making your expression more "precise": "([\\w]+):[\\s]*([^\\s].*)" for example, John. --------------------------------- Want to chat instantly with your online friends? Get the FREE Yahoo!Messenger

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