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Problems installing old BOOST version
by squid squid 01 Jan '14

01 Jan '14

Greetings Everyone I'm a phd student in chemometrics and drug design. I am fairly new to ubuntu C programing although I'm rather experienced in C programing in windows. I have recently come accross a number of codes written in 2005 which I'm interested in learning how they work. Those codes needs BOOST library to complie, however they won't compile on the newest BOOST version installed on my ubuntu 12.04. I set the gcc compiler on lenient so that it ignores all those error messages. The code did compile and ran afterwards. However, when I used GDB debugger to watch how the program flows I noticed that there are likely errors in the way the program runs probably due to using a different BOOST version rather than it's original. Hence I like to install the BOOST version corresponding to the code I downloaded. To do that, I installed Ubuntu 6.02 and downloaded BOOST 1.33.1 both of which were created in late 2005. I downloaded BOOST from: http://www.boost.org/users/history/ but I didnt found any detailed instruction on how to install it. Only vague description on using BOOST jam, I played around with BOOST jam for quite awhile and got roughly the installation outline as follows: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Unpack the trazball in /usr/share/ goto the directory /usr/share/boost_1_33_1/tools/build/jam_src run the script ./build.sh the script creats an executable called bjam, copy that file into /usr/share/boost_1_33_1/ run bjam with: ./bjam "-sTOOLS=gcc" install -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* My problems starts when running the ./build.sh script, resulting in tons of error messages and no bjam file created. The errors look like: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* ... ... search.c:187: error too many arguments to function 'timestamp' In file included from subst.c:2: jam.h:398:24: error: sys/types.h: No such file or directory jam.h:399:23: error: sys/stat.h: No such file or directory ... ...lots more errors.... -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* I would greatly appreciate any info on how to deal with this issue. Sincerely

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Mysterious early data termination using filtering_iostreams zlib_compressor
by Kenneth Adam Miller 31 Dec '13

31 Dec '13

I'm using intel's pin tool (pintool.org) and the boost library's filtering_stream in order to compress data before it goes to a file. I already have functioning code that does that, but at the very end of the execution of the target, right before the PIN_AddFiniFunction callback gets executed the stream of bytes in the compressed version ends (I assume this because the decompressed version is generated by subsequently opening another filtering_stream and using a zlib_decompressor and reading the entire compressed file out). I don't know why the stream ends early... This makes getting help kind of hard, because the files that are being produced are hundreds of megabytes, and differ by just a little kb. So even the diff is large, but I think the salient point is that the data included in the compressed/decompressed version is the same aside from the end. To make this easy for anybody helping, I've included a link to my repo where I've created a reproducible mini example, which should be able to be downloaded, built, and run without any hassel on the latest ubuntu: https://github.com/KennethAdamMiller/Boost-PinTool (It's a drop in replacement for debug trace; you just drop the appropriate files into the DebugTrace folder in your PIN_ROOT/source/tools/, then type make. There are very clear instructions! :) ) link to boost's filtering_stream: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/libs/iostreams/doc/classes/filtering_s… After you build and run the tool, you should see debugtrace.out and decompressed.xml (the xml part I'm too lazy to change even as I type; it's just text). Go to the bottom of each, you can see that debugtrace.out ends with the line containing "eof" properly, but that the decompressed.xml does not... Can anybody tell me what the issue is? I'm quite certain that everything *should* have went into the FilteringStream that went into the ofstream... please help, I have no idea why it's terminating this way...

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Matrix Vector Multiplication in MPI (Coordinate Storage Format)
by ozhan fenerci 30 Dec '13

30 Dec '13

I wrote a serial code for a matrix-vector multiplication in a Coordinate Storage Format(COO). COO method has already made a big speed-up. My matrix is in a tridiagonal form. I want to parallelize the code and see how the parallelizm improves the code. My matrix could grow up to 2.000.000*2.000.000. Any efficient parallelization approach doesn't come to my mind (I have written some basic mpi programs but not much more. So my experience is limited.) Could you give me some headstart? Thanks. Özhan Fenerci #include <boost/numeric/ublas/banded.hpp> #include <boost/numeric/ublas/io.hpp> #include <vector> #include <iostream> #include "mpi.h" #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char *argv[] ) { using namespace boost::numeric::ublas; using std::cout; using std::endl; int numprocs, rank, chunk_size, i,j; int max, mymax,rem; int totalNonZeros; //totalNonZeros of TriDiagonal Matrix MPI_Status status; //b=A*x banded_matrix<double> A (10, 10, 1, 1); //vector<double> x(10); //vector<double> b(10); int* x = new int[10]; int* b = new int[10]; /* Initialize MPI */ MPI_Init( &argc,&argv); MPI_Comm_rank( MPI_COMM_WORLD, &rank); MPI_Comm_size( MPI_COMM_WORLD, &numprocs); //MPI_Status status; if (rank == 0) { for (signed i = 0; i < signed (A.size1 ()); ++ i) { for (signed j = std::max (i - 1, 0); j < std::min (i + 2, signed (A.size2 ())); ++j) A (i, j) = i + j; x[i]= 1; } } if(rank == 0) { cout << A <<endl<<endl; totalNonZeros = 0; for (signed i = 0; i < signed (A.size1 ()); ++ i) { for (signed j = std::max (i - 1, 0); j < std::min (i + 2, signed (A.size2 ())); ++ j) if( A(i,j) !=0) totalNonZeros++; } } cout<<"Number ot NonZeros "<<totalNonZeros<<endl; if(rank == 0) { int * row_idx = new int[totalNonZeros]; // row index array int * col_idx = new int[totalNonZeros]; // col index array int * val = new int[totalNonZeros]; //val array int index=0; for (signed i = 0; i < signed (A.size1 ()); ++ i) { for (signed j = std::max (i - 1, 0); j < std::min (i + 2, signed (A.size2 ())); ++ j) if( A(i,j) !=0) { row_idx[index] = i; col_idx[index]=j; val[index] = A(i,j); index++; } } //Clear out result for ( int k=0; k<A.size1(); ++k) { b[k]= 0; } //Matrix-vector Multiply for (int index=0 ; index <totalNonZeros;++index){ b[row_idx[index]] = b[row_idx[index]]+ val[index]*x[col_idx[index]]; cout<<b[3]<<endl; } //delete row_idx; // delete col_idx; //delete val; } MPI_Finalize(); return 0;

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unit and functional testing of boost statechart
by rahul baruah 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

Hello All, I like to do unit and functional testing of our implemented statemachine written using boost - statechart. Is there any framework for that?? anyone did any unit testing and suggestion?? Regards Rahul Protim Baruah

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[Boost] Command Line to run a specific Boost Test Case using BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE
by Hemanth Choudary M V (RBEI/ETA1) 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

Hi, I would like to run this boost test case using the command line. Please note that the list contains data types that have 2 or more words. I need to know what to pass in the Command Line for -run_test=__________ #define BOOST_TEST_MODULE example #include <boost/test/included/unit_test.hpp> #include <boost/test/test_case_template.hpp> #include <boost/mpl/list.hpp> //____________________________________________________________________________// typedef boost::mpl::list<long long,unsigned char> test_types; BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE_TEMPLATE( my_test, T, test_types ) { BOOST_CHECK_EQUAL( sizeof(T), (unsigned)4 ); } //_ Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards, Hemanth Choudary MV RBEI/ETA1

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Re: [Boost-users] [serialization] Registering/exporting shared_ptr<T> in a library
by Martin Weinberg 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

On 12/28/2013 06:34 PM, Robert Ramey wrote: > > > On Saturday, December 28, 2013 2:15:44 PM UTC-8, Martin Weinberg wrote: > > I have a shared library for derived and base classes. My code passes > instances of derived classes T using boost::shared_ptr<B> to the base > class. This all works as expected. > > I've used the BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_KEY and BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_IMPLEMENT > macros to register both the classes Tand shared_ptr<T> typedefs to > all > the classes. > > If I attempt to serialize a base class pointer, > boost::serialization can > not find the serialize member for the shared_ptr to the derived > class. > > > a) double check the documentation boost/serialization/case > studies/shared_ptr<T> revisited > > b) Make sure you'r doing the following > > class A {...}; > class B : public A {...} > ... > A * = new B; // note we create a B and cast the address to an A* !!! > > ... should be no problem from here on out. > > Robert Ramey Thanks. What I'm doing is: shared_ptr<A> t(new B); and then: ar & A; It's ok if I put: BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT(shared_ptr<A>) BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT(shared_ptr<B>) in the caller but not if I put them in the library. Trying to understand if there's a way to put registration in the library rather than the main source.

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[serialization] Registering/exporting shared_ptr<T> in a library
by Martin Weinberg 28 Dec '13

28 Dec '13

I have a shared library for derived and base classes. My code passes instances of derived classes T using boost::shared_ptr<B> to the base class. This all works as expected. I've used the BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_KEY and BOOST_CLASS_EXPORT_IMPLEMENT macros to register both the classes Tand shared_ptr<T> typedefs to all the classes. If I attempt to serialize a base class pointer, boost::serialization can not find the serialize member for the shared_ptr to the derived class. However, if I don't register the shared_ptr<T> for each derived class T in the shared library, but instead use BOOST_EXPORT_CLASS(shared_ptr<T>) in main(), everything works fine. Is there a workaround so that I don't need BOOST_EXPORT_CLASS(shared_ptr<T>) in main() for every possible derived class? Thanks. I can provide a trivial example that illustrates this issue if that would help.

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Boost [Regex] (grep Falg) Why doesn't this pattern match?
by Asmita Gaikwad 27 Dec '13

27 Dec '13

Hi, Environment: Windows 7 (32 bit), Visual Studio 2010 (Visual C++) I am trying to use Boost REGEX regex_match algorithm. I am using its grep flag. My code is as follows and here (a)* matches string "aaa", but still b comes out to be false. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 bool MatchWithGrep(string& pattern, string& data) { const boost::regex e(pattern.c_str(), boost::regex::grep); return regex_match(data.c_str(), e); } I am passing following parameters bool b = MatchWithGrep("(a)*\\n123", "aaa"); In Boost Help, following is documented. Link - http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/syntax/ basic_syntax.html When an expression is compiled with the flag grep set, then the expression is treated as a newline separated list of POSIX-Basic expressions, a match is found if any of the expressions in the list match, for example: boost::regex e("abc\ndef", boost::regex::grep); will match either of the POSIX-Basic expressions "abc" or "def". Considering this, in my example i have 2 basic expressions (a)* and 123. (Since its c++ string \\n <file:///\\n> will be taken as \n internally. I had debugged the code and i can see value of variable pattern as "(a)*\n123" in watch window). Presence of any should give me bool b as true. And my data is "aaa". So it should give true. But i am getting false. Can anyone help me to find what's wrong with my code? Thanks & Regards, Asmita EDISPHERE Software Private Limited Email: asmita.gaikwad(a)edisphere.com| Website: <http://www.edisphere.com/> http://www.edisphere.com

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filesystem temp_directory_path() returns undefined data
by Philipp Kraus 26 Dec '13

26 Dec '13

Hello, I have build Boost 1.55 on OSX 10.8.5 and I have written a short example to get the temporary path of my system. So I run std::cout << temp_directory_path() << std::endl, and it results "B?@?e/test/libboost_hA?@??%UP^?" I have build Boost with bjam myself and otool results the correct linked file. How can I solved the error? Thanks a lot Phil

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compilation
by Mihir Thakkar 25 Dec '13

25 Dec '13

hello all i cloned the git repository by following command. i use ubuntu12.10 1) git clone --recursive https://github.com/boostorg/boost.git modular-boost 2) ./bootstrap.sh 3) ./b2 headers after this on running the following command for separately compiled libraries, 4) ./b2 and i got the error like following. gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/ gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi/bzip2.o libs/iostreams/src/bzip2.cpp:20:56: fatal error: bzlib.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. "g++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_IOSTREAMS_USE_DEPRECATED -DNDEBUG -I"." -c -o "bin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi/bzip2.o" "libs/iostreams/src/bzip2.cpp" ...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi/bzip2.o... ...skipped <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_iostreams.a(clean) for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>bzip2.o... ...skipped <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_iostreams.a for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>bzip2.o... ...skipped <pstage/lib>libboost_iostreams.a for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/link-static/threading-multi>libboost_iostreams.a... gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/threading-multi/bzip2.o libs/iostreams/src/bzip2.cpp:20:56: fatal error: bzlib.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. "g++" -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline -Wall -pthread -fPIC -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_IOSTREAMS_DYN_LINK=1 -DBOOST_IOSTREAMS_USE_DEPRECATED -DNDEBUG -I"." -c -o "bin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/threading-multi/bzip2.o" "libs/iostreams/src/bzip2.cpp" ...failed gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/threading-multi/bzip2.o... ...skipped <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/threading-multi>libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/threading-multi>bzip2.o... ...skipped <pstage/lib>libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0 for lack of <pbin.v2/libs/iostreams/build/gcc-4.7/release/threading-multi>libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0... ...skipped <pstage/lib>libboost_iostreams.so for lack of <pstage/lib>libboost_iostreams.so.1.55.0... ...failed updating 2 targets... ...skipped 6 targets... i would appreciate if someone would guide me how to solve the problem. thank you!

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