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Do correct instructions for MinGW install exist?
by Kirk Joppy 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

Dear Boost users, I have recently been trying to install boost 1.53 for use with MinGW. I followed the instructions here http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_53_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#prep… to the letter with resulting failure. I then noticed that when running b2 install --prefix=G:\boost_1_53_0\my-build from G:\boost_1_53_0\tools\build\v2 as per the instructions, the first few lines of output read warning: No toolsets are configured warning: Configuring default toolset "msvc" warning: If the defrault is wrong, your build may not work correctly warning: Use the "toolset=xxxxx" option to override our guess warning: For more configuration options, please consult <webpage> I have consulted the recommended web page and I think I have gotten a working install. However, given that the instructions as written are incorrect I would like to ask 1. Is there a correct, definitive source of instructions for installing boost (with MinGW)? 2. Should the documentation be corrected? I think this error is important given that the section I was working from is specifically indicated to pertain to non-MSVC builds. 3. I have found several conflicting sources of information regarding how to build boost for use with static linking. StackOverflow, for example, has several posts about this, none of which agree with each other. Is there are definitive, correct source of this information? If not I suppose I will post to this mailing list asking about it. Thank you for your consideration. Regards, kjoppy

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Boost.Test on Windows x64
by User 8583 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

Hello, I am trying to use Boost.Test 1.53 on a Windows 7 x64 platform and VS2012. I compiled the libraries using .\b2 variant=release link=static threading=multi runtime-link=shared toolset=msvc-11.0 address-model=64 Linking the libraries with my (x64) test program produces the following error: libboost_unit_test_framework-vc110-mt-gd-1_53.lib(unit_test_suite.obj) : fatal error LNK1112: module machine type 'X86' conflicts with target machine type 'x64' I am surprised as I have used the boost serialization library compiled with the same command line in x64 programs without such error. Any help appreciated, Bob

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basic_socket.hpp line 1421
by Christopher Pisz 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

I am migrating a project from VS 2008 to Vs 2012 and in the process updated boost from 1.40 to 1.53. After days and weeks of project settings, editing third party source (not boost), playing with configurations, etc. I got a build! Unfortunately one of the unit tests has an unhandled exception. I debugged down into code that was foreign to me and see that someone was calling shutdown on a boost socket. Maybe they called it at the wrong time or already shut it down, or something. It isn't my code. However, this looks very suspicious to me: in boost's header basic_socket.hpp: void shutdown(shutdown_type what) { boost::system::error_code ec; this->get_service().shutdown(this->get_implementation(), what, ec); boost::asio::detail::throw_error(ec, "shutdown"); } I don't see how this would not throw? It looks like it _always_ throws? What's the deal here?

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Re: [Boost-users] [program_options] copy option_description from one options_description to another
by Ghyslain Leclerc 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

On 2013-06-30, at 17:57 , Juraj Ivan?i? <juraj.ivancic(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > There is an 'add' overload which accepts shared_ptr. This one does not > add grouping. I hadn't noticed that. My bad. This is exactly what I needed. Solved everything for now. I thought knowing what actually solved my problem might be good to share on the mailing list. Hope this is appropriate. Sorry if it isn't. > > you get double delete crash. I hadn't thought of that. Proves I'm a physicist first and a programmer second ! Thanks for your explanation. Hopefully makes me better. Again, thanks for your time. Ghyslain

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Boost 1.54.0 released!
by Marshall Clow 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

Release 1.54.0 of the Boost C++ Libraries is now available. These open-source libraries work well with the C++ Standard Library, and are usable across a broad spectrum of applications. The Boost license encourages both commercial and non-commercial use. This release contains five new libraries and numerous enhancements and bug fixes for existing libraries. New Libraries: Log: Logging library, from Andrey Semashev. TTI: Type Traits Introspection library, from Edward Diener. Type Erasure: Runtime polymorphism based on concepts. For details, including download links, see http://www.boost.org/users/news/version_1.54.0 You can also download directly from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.54.0/ To install this release on your system, see http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/more/getting_started/index.html Thanks, --The Boost release team Beman Dawes Daniel James Eric Niebler Marshall Clow Rene Rivera Vladimir Prus

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Counting all cliques of a given size in an undirected graph
by Andrea Cassioli 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

Dear all Boost users, I need to count all cliques of a given size in an undirected graph. I am using Boost Graph and I have found the Bron-Kerbosch algorithm implemented in version 1.53 but not documented. My question is two-fold: 1) why the algorithm is somehow hidden? 2) Is this algorithm able to count the occurrencies of cliques of a certain dimension or just the maximal cliques? Best, Andrea Cassioli

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Problem in building the BGL Python 0.95 on Windows
by lizy10b 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

Hi there, I have got the latest BGL-Python 0.95 from svn (thanks to John), but I can't build it. My environment: Windows 7 x64, Python 2.66 x86, MPICH2 1.32 x86, VS2010 I have tried the following steps: 1. The boost 1.53 source code distribution dir (newly extracted from the zip package) is E:\boost_1_53_0, the BGL Python 0.95 source code dir is E:\bgl-python_svn_095 2. Add a new environment variable, name: BOOST_ROOT, value: E:\boost_1_53_0 3. Append the boost 1.53 source code distribution dir (E:\boost_1_53_0) to the environment variable "PATH" to expose later built bjam.exe file. 4. Add some lines to the file user-config.jam (E:\boost_1_53_0\tools\build\v2\user-config.jam) import toolset : using ; using python : 2.6 : "C:\\Python266" : "C:\\Python266\\include" : "C:\\Python266\\libs" ; using mpi : : <find-static-library>mpi <library-path>"D:\\Program Files (x86)\\MPICH2\\lib" <include>"D:\\Program Files (x86)\\MPICH2\\include" : "\"D:\\Program Files (x86)\\MPICH2\\mpiexec\"" ; 5. Open the vs2010 commandline window (Visual Studio Command Prompt 2010) 6. Navigate to boost 1.53 source code distribution dir to build the bjam.exe: type bootstrap.bat 7. Then navigate to the BGL-Python-0.95 source code dir and type bjam --prefix=E:\boost_1_53_0\release32 stage toolset=msvc-10.0 variant=release link=static address-model=32 architecture=x86 threading=multi runtime-link=shared install The outputs are: Jamfile.v2:198: in load-aux rule python.get-python-interpreter unknown in module Jamfile</E:/bgl-python_svn_ 095> E:/boost_1_53_0/tools/build/v2/build\project.jam:323: in load-jamfile E:/boost_1_53_0/tools/build/v2/build\project.jam:62: in load E:/boost_1_53_0/tools/build/v2/build\project.jam:168: in project.find E:/boost_1_53_0/tools/build/v2\build-system.jam:570: in load E:\boost_1_53_0\tools\build\v2/kernel\modules.jam:283: in import E:\boost_1_53_0\tools\build\v2/kernel/bootstrap.jam:142: in boost-build E:\boost_1_53_0\boost-build.jam:17: in module scope E:\bgl-python_svn_095> and the building process stopped. So what is the problem? Thanks. Zhiyu Li

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[program_options] copy option_description from one options_description to another
by Ghyslain Leclerc 30 Jun '13

30 Jun '13

Hello. First post here. Not a programmer by trade, but a medical physicist, so my apologies if my question seems too much of a newbie question. And hopefully, my programing jargon won’t be too bad. I have searched on Google and played with my code all day yesterday and I have not found the answer to my problem, so I thought I would try the mailing list. We have a number of small command line utilities (approx. 10) that we are developing for our clinic. We want to try and make a base class that would contain all our usual program options in it and would allow customization for our various little programs. Thus, I need to store a options_description object with our usual options and a function in the class to add options to the stored object. That way, the interfaces would be more homogeneous and we would not need to recode all the logic of option handling for every application and maintain them all. Simply create a derived class and add a few options_description to it. Then use that class for our application. My first approach was to store a options_description object directly, but I can't seem to assign to it. So if I want to reset the object to a completely new one, for instance in a special case where the usual options don't make any sense, I run into problems. I switched to holding a pointer to it (tr1 shared_ptr). That allows me to easily change the object all together if I need to. In either case (pointer or object), my actual problem comes when I want to add options to a options_description. I can easily use the add function : myOptionsDescriptionObject.add( theOtherOptionsDescriptionObject ); but that adds empty lines in the output format and creates artificial grouping of options, which I would like to avoid if possible. That being said, given the current state of our code, I will implement this version now as this is the "best" solution that works. The way I am trying to get around that is to extract for each option_description contained in the options_description object the name, the description and the value_semantic and then use these three extracted values with the add_options() function like so: muOptionsDescriptionObject.add_options()( other.options()->name(), other.options()->semantic().get(), other.options()->description() ); Works perfectly for name and description, but fails for value_semantic. It compiles, but generates a "The program has unexpectedly finished." message. My hypothesis for what is happening is that I am using the .get() to extract the raw pointer from the shared_ptr returned, but the shared_ptr somehow deletes the memory and my pointer becomes invalid. Here is a short version of what I came up with. The problem is probably in the implementation of the function addGenOpts(). Can anybody help with this? Sorry if this is a ridiculous question or if my post makes no sense. English is not my first language. In advance, thanks. Ghyslain --------------------------- namespace bpo = boost::program_options; class BaseCli { public: BaseCli(); virtual ~BaseCli() {} void parseCmdLineOpts( int argc, const char* argv[] ); void parseCfgFileOpts(); void run(); bool checkPresent( const std::string& optionStrg ); const bpo::options_description& genOpts( ); void addGenOpts( const bpo::options_description& opts ); void setGenOpts( const bpo::options_description& opts ); private: bpo::variables_map optionsMap_; std::tr1::shared_ptr< bpo::options_description > genOpts_; //virtual void runNoInteraction_() = 0; //virtual void runWithInteraction_() = 0; }; void BaseCli::addGenOpts( const bpo::options_description& opts ) { using std::vector; using std::string; // Loop through every option in opts for( auto optIter = opts.options().begin(); optIter != opts.options().end(); ++optIter ) { ... CODE REMOVED TO SAVE SPACE ... ... SIMPLE STRING MANIPULATION STUFF ... // Combine names into program_options option string string combinedName( longName ); if ( !shortName.empty() ) { combinedName += string( "," ) + shortName; } genOpts_->add_options()( combinedName.c_str(), (*optIter)->semantic().get(), (*optIter)->description().c_str() ); } } ---------------------------

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Asio and Spirit
by LeMay.Steve 30 Jun '13

30 Jun '13

Can anyone point me to a modern example or description of using Asio with Spirit to parse and asynchronous stream. I keep finding articles that say this can't be done, or at least not easily (but the comments date back to 2007). SGL

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Herb Sutter on C++ Standardization and Visual Studio
by LeMay.Steve 30 Jun '13

30 Jun '13

Herb Sutter on C++ Standardization at Microsoft. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Build/2013/2-306 SGL

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