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boost compiler warnings
by Dave Dyer 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Using boost 52 on OSX / 64 and xcode 4, the new mac compiler produces a lot of "semantic issue" warnings. I assume these are all not consequential, but is this lint being addressed? The two issues it is complaining about is that "long" is compiled as int64, and that using string literals as char * is deprecated.

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Serialization: BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT changes between 1.38 and 1.52
by Nathan Whitehorn 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

I'm upgrading a large data analysis project from boost 1.38 to 1.52 (see this 2008 Boostcon talk for details: http://www.icecube.umd.edu/~troy/talks/icefishing.pdf) Everything has gone remarkably smoothly, with a minimal degree of #if, except for one thing: a change in the semantics of BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT. The software is organized into a number of shared libraries each of which have serializable classes that generally inherit from a shared base class, through pointers to which the derived classes are almost always [de]serialized to/from a custom archive type. When using 1.38, the BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT directive was kept in the implementation file for each serializable class. This almost still works for 1.52 but can result in strange behavior that took me two days to track down. Some of our classes would report through unregistered class errors on [de]serialization. Which ones would depend on circumstances, compiler version, linker, and operating system. The reason turns out to be changes in handling of the class GUID. This is associated to the pointer serializer by BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT -- but also now apparently by the first instantiated code [de]serializing the class through that archive directly based on the presence of a template specialization of boost::serialization::guid<T>() currently in scope, which is NULL by default. Once NULL is set as the GUID, it stays that way, regardless of a proper BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT later. This occurred in our case as a result of def_pickle() calls in boost.python bindings that used the same classes and archive type. This can be fixed by BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_KEY in all appropriate header files. Adding it is a sizeable amount of work (hundreds of classes) but I'm more concerned the mechanism is very fragile in the case of templates and I'm not sure what to do there. For example, we have a generic serializable container. Any specialization of it needs to be registered with BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT, which is fine, but anyone using that specialization needs to also include a header file BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_KEY() in it for that particular specialization as well. In other words, you can't just use container<Foo> and expect it to work reliably and, moreover, if you use it *once* without having seen the right in-scope macro, it will break serialization of that type globally if you happen to have linked against a library that made this mistake. Probably. Depending on initialization order. So my questions: 1. Is it possible for things that would return GUIDs of NULL to try harder and look in a global registry instead of silently breaking things? This kind of global lookup was how 1.38 always worked and it seems considerably less fragile. 2. Is there a way to handle BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_KEY() sanely in the case of templates without the risk of silent serialization failures -- in all instances of that class -- that depend on global initialization order? 3. Is it possible to change the GUID set in the extended type info object of a pointer_[i/o]serializer at runtime after the class has been added to the export registry? 4. Are there any suggested mechanisms for local hacks, given that we control the archive implementation, to implement 1-3 without changes to boost? -Nathan

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[serialization] Support for Boost.Container?
by Jensen, Erik A 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

I see that Boost.Serialization has support for serializing STL containers, such as std::vector. However, I can't seem to serialize a boost::container::vector. Do I need to do something special to get this to work, or is it not supported? I need guaranteed support for incomplete types, so I can't use an STL vector. If it is not supported, what is my best bet, for now? Are there any plans to do so? Using Boost.Serialization with Boost.Container is something I would expect to just work, and it seems like most of the STL code could be reused. Thanks.

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Re: [Boost-users] enable_shared_from_this()
by John M. Dlugosz 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Frank Mori Hess<fmh6jj(a)gmail.com> wrote: > That means > throwing exceptions from the constructor after using shared_from_raw > (or in any derived constructor since ithe derived constructor would be > called later) causes bad things to happen. That's no different from stashing away a raw pointer from a constructor (e.g. passing it as a "parent" pointer to a referenced object). But that could be improved upon: The collaborators can be given a weak_ptr only. But, we may require that collaborators have owning references. In my library, a "borrower" (weak_ptr) could optionally hold a strong reference as well, so the reference could be upgraded from weak to strong after a point of commitment is reached. If there were some kind of on-spec pending ptr type, they could be seen as strong references eventually and in normal use, but automatically cleared or committed by the Create wrapper. That is, you would not have to keep track of the collaborators and hook them up in a second stage; rather, all such pending ptrs would become solid (wherever they are) with one call made after the ctor is golden. I never had a problem with it, though. —John

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Re: [Boost-users] How do you compile Boost C++ code in Ubuntu?
by Giovanni 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Greetings, I am sorry for the confusion; I mean my code that uses Boost C++ Libraries. I had set the shell variable $LD_LIBRARY_PATH to: /usr/lib/libboost_system.so. It was originally empty. I used the "echo" command to reflect the path that I had set it to. I had installed it with Ubuntu Software Center. Here is a snippet of: /usr/lib -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31152 Jan 5 2012 libboost_chrono.so.1.48.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 68216 Jan 2 2012 libboost_date_time.so.1.46.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 122280 Jan 2 2012 libboost_filesystem.so.1.46.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 324192 Jan 2 2012 libboost_graph.so.1.46.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 328328 Jan 5 2012 libboost_graph.so.1.48.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101592 Jan 2 2012 libboost_iostreams.so.1.46.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 885000 Jan 5 2012 libboost_locale.so.1.48.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105264 Jan 2 2012 libboost_math_c99f.so.1.46.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109264 Jan 2 2012 libboost_math_c99l.so.1.46.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109312 Jan 2 2012 libboost_math_c99.so.1.46.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265088 Jan 2 2012 libboost_math_tr1f.so.1.46.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 244536 Jan 2 2012 libboost_math_tr1l.so.1.46.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 240440 Jan 2 2012 libboost_math_tr1.so.1.46.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 89656 Jan 3 2012 libboost_mpi_python-py27.so.1.46.1 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libboost_system.so.1.48.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1635110 Jan 5 2012 libboost_test_exec_monitor.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 28 Jan 5 2012 libboost_test_exec_monitor-mt.a -> libboost_test_exec_monitor.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 101304 Jan 2 2012 libboost_thread.so.1.46.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109536 Jan 5 2012 libboost_thread.so.1.48.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 33102 Jan 5 2012 libboost_timer.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jan 5 2012 libboost_timer-mt.a -> libboost_timer.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jan 5 2012 libboost_timer-mt.so -> libboost_timer.so.1.48.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Jan 5 2012 libboost_timer.so -> libboost_timer.so.1.48.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18832 Jan 5 2012 libboost_timer.so.1.48.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1879526 Jan 5 2012 libboost_unit_test_framework.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 30 Jan 5 2012 libboost_unit_test_framework-mt.a -> libboost_unit_test_framework.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Jan 5 2012 libboost_unit_test_framework-mt.so -> libboost_unit_test_framework.so.1.48.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 38 Jan 5 2012 libboost_unit_test_framework.so -> libboost_unit_test_framework.so.1.48.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 656824 Jan 2 2012 libboost_unit_test_framework.so.1.46.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 669080 Jan 5 2012 libboost_unit_test_framework.so.1.48.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1320168 Jan 2 2012 libboost_wave.so.1.46.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 845962 Jan 5 2012 libboost_wserialization.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jan 5 2012 libboost_wserialization-mt.a -> libboost_wserialization.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jan 5 2012 libboost_wserialization-mt.so -> libboost_wserialization.so.1.48.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Jan 5 2012 libboost_wserialization.so -> libboost_wserialization.so.1.48.0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 323128 Jan 2 2012 libboost_wserialization.so.1.46.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 323128 Jan 5 2012 libboost_wserialization.so.1.48.0 Here is a listing of the files in: /usr/include/boost Go Bears >ls -al total 1308 drwxr-xr-x 86 root root 12288 Feb 7 03:51 . drwxr-xr-x 121 root 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When I followed your instructions to install it (again), I couldn't. Here is the transcript from the Terminal. Go Bears >sudo apt-get install libboost-system-dev [sudo] password for arvind: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libboost-system-dev : Depends: libboost-system1.46-dev but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. Go Bears > Can you please kindly tell me where did I go wrong, and what is wrong? Can you also please kindly tell me how can I compile my C++ code that uses Boost C++ Libraries? Thank you very much, and have an awesome day! Regards On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 6:18 AM, Mateusz Loskot <mateusz(a)loskot.net> wrote: > On 7 February 2013 10:06, Giovanni <giovanni.ong(a)comsoc.org> wrote: >> Greetings, >> I cannot compile my Boost C++ code. > > Do you mean Boost C++ code, thus building Boost libraries, > or you mean your code that *uses* Boost libraries? Unclear. > >> Initially, it complains of “undefined reference”. When I try to >> resolve this by including the library, I get the "/usr/bin/ld: cannot >> find -lboost_system" error. > > So, looks like the former, you are trying to use the libraries. > >> From the Terminal: >> Go Bears >echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH >> /usr/lib/libboost_system.so > > Where do you get this from? > > "LD_LIBRARY_PATH, which is a colon-separated list of directories" [1] > > [1] http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Program-Library-HOWTO/shared-libraries.html > >> Go Bears >make all >> g++ -L/usr/lib -lboost_system get_sys_info.cpp > > Have you installed it first? > > sudo apt-get install libboost-system-dev > > Best regards, > -- > Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

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Problem linking to serialisation library on Mac OSX
by Tim Burgess 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Hi, I built my boost on Mac OSX 10.8 as follows: ./bootstrap.sh -prefix=/users/tim/developer/libraries/boost_1_50_0/stage ./b2 -address-model=32_64 stdlib=libc++ This ran boost.build with the Darwin toolset, as expected, and generated no errors. Checking the stage/lib folder revealed a complete set of static and dynamic library files with appropriate date-time stamps. I specified the linker as libc++ as the project I'm working on using XCode 4.6 uses wxWidgets 2.9.4, which requires that the project be compiled using Apple's GCC instead of the default compiler (this, in turn, means that libc++ becomes the linker used by the project). However, when I try to build my XCode project, I get errors of the form: Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64: "boost::archive::basic_xml_iarchive<boost::archive::xml_wiarchive>::load_sta rt(char All of the errors refer to boost::archive or boost::serialisation. My project also uses the boost FileSystem, IOStream and System libraries, which don't generate any errors. I've found an awful lot of references to this issue on the web (particularly StackOverflow), but have yet to find an answer/solution. I'm pretty sure that I'm using the correct command-line options (I didn't specify architecture=combined, as Mac OSX SDK 10.8 no longer supports PPC), but I'm confused by the plethora of available build options, as I'm a novice on this platform. The project is a cross-platform effort and the same source code presented to my Windows VS2010 32/64-bit project builds and runs. Similarly, the same project built and ran under Mac OSX 10.6 with XCode 3.6 - I'd gladly revert to the older Mac O/S and XCode except for the fact that I'm a blind developer and the debugger provided in XCode 3.6 is not accessible to me using Apple's VoiceOver speech output utility (the debugger in XCode 4.6 holds out more hope for being usable). I'd greatly appreciate any tips and tricks for resolving this problem, so many thanks in advance. Best wishes. Tim Burgess Raised Bar Ltd. Tel: +44 (0)1827 719822 Web: http://www.raisedbar.net We can supply Roland and Avid products with specialist pre and post-sales support for visually-impaired users - just drop us a line for a quote. Don't forget to sign our on-line petition to lobby for improved access to music education and music technology at: http://www.raisedbar.net/petition.htm

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Re: [Boost-users] enable_shared_from_this()
by John M. Dlugosz 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

On 2/5/2013 9:43 AM, boost-users-request-at-lists.boost.org |Boost/Allow to home| wrote: From: Dominique Devienne<ddevienne(a)gmail.com> > Thanks for any insight on this. Could very well be I'm missing > something obvious (my C++ expertise doesn't rise to Boost levels), but > so far I fail to see the drawbacks. My old smart pointers (dating back to the '90's) had full support for initializing a smart pointer from a raw pointer even if it was already known to the smart pointer system. It was one of six _essential_ features (I called it “lost and found”) and I agree there were no troubles with it. It is easy to do when the class is derived from a helper base (like enable_shared_from_this does) and furthermore it doesn't need the CRTP. I agree that an extension to the now-standard enable_self_from_this could be implemented that gives a self_from_this that may be called during the constructor or as the first way to obtain a shared_ptr, also provide for "lost and found" usage, and not behave differently for any usage that is well-formed using the standard class (that is, it would be a pure extension). When changing some existing code to use shared_ptr, I've wished something like that was available, and missed my old class in this respect. For new code, in general use a Create static member that wraps the call to the (private) constructor so you can't create anything other than a shared_ptr, and the stuff that needs the shared ptr during "construction" gets moved to the stage 2, in the body of Create. In particular, if the object registers itself with collaborators (via shared pointers) you really wanted that part _in_ the constructor. —John

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How do you compile Boost C++ code in Ubuntu?
by Giovanni 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Greetings, I cannot compile my Boost C++ code. Initially, it complains of “undefined reference”. When I try to resolve this by including the library, I get the "/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_system" error. From the Terminal: Go Bears >echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/lib/libboost_system.so Go Bears >make all g++ -L/usr/lib -lboost_system get_sys_info.cpp /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_system collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [all] Error 1 Go Bears > Do you know what stupid mistakes did I make? >From my Makefile: all: g++ -L/usr/lib -lboost_system get_sys_info.cpp ./a.out Thank you so much, and have an awesome day!

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Using property_tree as json reader/writer
by niXman 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Hi, Tell me please, anybody trying to use property_tree as json reader/writer for tasks more difficult than reading configuration files? Just wondering if anyone compared the performance of property_tree and other parsers? Thanks.

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[BGL][Serialization] Reading a graph from a binary file: "vector subscript out of range error" and portability
by Nicholas Mario Wardhana 07 Feb '13

07 Feb '13

Hi all, I am trying to read a graph from a binary file. This file was previously generated by constructing a graph consisting of 1000 vertices and almost 10M edges. While vertices are properly loaded, I encountered a "vector subscript out of range error" when edges are being loaded in adj_list_serialize.hpp, line 97 (boost::tie(e,inserted) = add_edge(verts[u], verts[v], graph);). At this line, u and v are all in the order of millions, whereas I only have 1000 vertices. When I ran the program without debugging, it consumed the whole memory. I put a not-so-minimal working code at the end of my e-mail. Could somebody please point out any mistake in my code? FYI, I use Boost 1.52, Visual C++ 2010, Windows 7 64-bit. BTW, my aim is to generate save files which are fast to be read and can be read on different computers. I am aware that while this binary format can be processed fast, it is not portable. Can somebody please tell me how non-portable it is? If there are only a few things to be considered, for example architectural difference (32 vs 64-bit), it is fine as I only need to generate two files for one graph. But, if there are many of such factor, to the point that it is impossible to provide numerous save files, is there any equally fast format which is more portable? Thank you! Best regards, Nicholas Mario Wardhana //======================= CODE ===================================// #include <boost/graph/adjacency_list.hpp> #include <boost/graph/adj_list_serialize.hpp> #include <boost/archive/binary_oarchive.hpp> #include <boost/archive/binary_iarchive.hpp> #include <fstream> struct Point { Point() : x(0.0f), y(0.0f), z(0.0f) { } float x; float y; float z; }; struct Node { Point point; float maxRadius; int motionType; int label; int ID; }; struct Edge { float cost; short int type; bool kept; bool skip; int nodeID1; int nodeID2; }; namespace boost { namespace serialization { template<class Archive> void serialize(Archive & ar, Point & v, const unsigned int version) { ar & v.x; ar & v.y; ar & v.z; } template<class Archive> void serialize(Archive & ar, Node & n, const unsigned int version) { ar & n.point; ar & n.maxRadius; ar & n.motionType; ar & n.label; ar & n.ID; } template<class Archive> void serialize(Archive & ar, Edge & e, const unsigned int version) { ar & e.cost; ar & e.type; ar & e.kept; ar & e.skip; ar & e.nodeID1; ar & e.nodeID2; } } // namespace serialization } // namespace boost typedef boost::adjacency_list<boost::setS, boost::vecS, boost::undirectedS, Node, // bundled data Edge, // bundled data boost::no_property, // not needed boost::listS> Graph; typedef boost::graph_traits<Graph>::vertex_iterator NodeIterator; typedef boost::graph_traits<Graph>::edge_iterator EdgeIterator; int main() { Graph g; for(int ID = 0; ID < 1000; ID++) { Node node; node.ID = ID; node.point.x = (float) ID; node.point.y = (float) ID; node.point.z = (float) ID; node.maxRadius = 1.0f; node.motionType = 0; node.label = 0; boost::add_vertex(node, g); } std::pair<NodeIterator, NodeIterator> vertexIterators = boost::vertices(g); NodeIterator nodeIterator1 = vertexIterators.first; for(; nodeIterator1 != vertexIterators.second; nodeIterator1++) { for(NodeIterator nodeIterator2 = nodeIterator1; nodeIterator2 != vertexIterators.second; nodeIterator2++) { if(*nodeIterator1 == *nodeIterator2) continue; Edge edge; edge.cost = 1.0f; edge.kept = true; edge.skip = false; edge.type = 0; edge.nodeID1 = g[*nodeIterator1].ID; edge.nodeID2 = g[*nodeIterator2].ID; boost::add_edge(*nodeIterator1, *nodeIterator2, edge, g); } } std::cout << "Number of nodes = " << boost::num_vertices(g) << std::endl; std::cout << "Number of edges = " << boost::num_edges(g) << std::endl; std::cout << "SAVE!" << std::endl; std::ofstream filename1("binary_serialization.txt"); boost::archive::binary_oarchive binary_oa(filename1); binary_oa & g; filename1.close(); std::cout << "LOAD!" << std::endl; Graph g3; std::ifstream filename2("binary_serialization.txt", std::ios::binary); try { boost::archive::binary_iarchive binary_ia(filename2); binary_ia & g3; // error here }catch (std::exception& e) { std::cout << e.what() << std::endl; } std::cout << "Number of nodes = " << boost::num_vertices(g3) << std::endl; std::cout << "Number of edges = " << boost::num_edges(g3) << std::endl; int a = 0; std::cin >> a; return 0; }

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