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[Log] record_ostream too restrictive due to non-copyability, non-assignability?
by Latimerius 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hello, I'm trying to migrate from an existing solution to Boost.Log. So far I've been able to emulate all important features of the existing library - except one. The existing library supported submitting a log message in multiple statements. This is useful when the message being composed has conditional parts, when a part of it is composed in a loop or even a different function, something like this: auto logmsg = log (Channel::CORE, Severity::DEBUG); logmsg << "unconditional part"; if (condition) logmsg << " conditional part"; for (auto element : container) logmsg << element; logging_subroutine (logmsg); logmsg << endmsg; To that end I extracted a structure from the manual_logging() function from the Boost.Log documentation to hold the state of the message being composed: struct log_msg_state { my_logger & logger; logging::record rec; logging::record_ostream strm; ... <constructor & destructor definition> ... }; Having done this, I can emulate most of the above example fairly easily by defining a bunch of operator<<() overloads for the log_msg_state. However, I've been struggling with record_ostream. It was a bit of a challenge even to initialise it in the constructor - we can't use the initialiser list as we have to make sure first that our logging::record is valid. On the other hand, in the ctor body when the check can be performed, it's too late as record_ostream has already been constructed already and as it turns out, you can't do much with a constructed instance - no usual stuff like if (rec) strm = logging::record_ostream (rec); works! Fortunately, I've been able to hack around it like this: if (rec) new (&strm) logging::record_ostream (rec); Not pretty but has been working well so far! However, I've failed to find a solution for returning my log_msg_state (and thus record_ostream) from a function. The non-copyability, non-assignability, non-moveability are always getting in the way. (Note also that I do NOT want to hold a pointer to record_ostream in my log_msg_state and allocate it dynamically - that would certainly make things easier but I don't want to penalise each and every log message with a dynamic allocation for no good reason.) Could someone please advise me how to get the functionality I need, a solution or a work-around at least? Thanks in advance pvl

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unused parameter warning
by Kevin Molcard 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Hi all, in some boost libraries I am using, there are compilation warnings complaining about unused parameter. For instance: boost/signals2/detail/auto_buffer.hpp:102:45: warning: unused parameter 'size' I'd like to get rid of the warnings. What is the best way to proceed? Should I send a merge request in github or something else? Thanks in advance Kevin

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using boost in cross compiler environment. intel host and arm target
by John Davis 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

Hello I have some code for arm which I would like to use with boost. The boost libraries I am interested in are not header only and thus require building. I have downloaded the boost tarfile and I have read the following two webpages relative but I am still confused. Here is a summary of the two urls and where I am confused. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_56_0/more/getting_started/ This url has the following procedure which seems to use the host default compiler to build boost. Easy Method for Building and Installing Boost Binary Libraries. step 1: $ cd $BOOST_DIR step 2: $ ./bootstrap.sh --help step 3: $ ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=path/to/installation/prefix ( Other docs specify for this step: $ ./b2 --build-dir=/tmp/build-boost toolset=gcc stage (optional --build-type=complete) Also says that --stagedir=/path/to/install/special/stage/target/library/binaries I'm not certain what the stage components are or what the stage part is. ) $ ./b2 install “This will leave Boost binaries in the lib/ subdir of the installation prefix.” The only customization mentioned here is for where you want your results to be placed. step 4: Add path/to/installation to my $PATH environment variable. http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/doc/html/bbv2/tasks.html#bbv2.tasks.cr… The section is on common tasks for boost build, in particular in the section is task on cross compilation. Boost.Build supports cross compilation with gcc toolset. When using gcc, you first need to specify your cross compiler in user-config.jam for example: using gcc : arm : arm-none-linux-gnueabi-g++; This looks good, i'm thinking I need to edit a user-config.jam file. After that, if the host and target os are the same, for example linux, you can just repeat this compiler version to be used: b2 toolset=gcc-arm Regarding the user-config.jam file. These are the notes I took while reading: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/doc/html/bbv2/overview.html#bbv2.overv… On startup, boost.build searches and reads two config files: site-config.jam and user-config.jam. Alternatively, the docs say you can edit the one at the top of the boost.build directory. In my case, I believe that would be $BOOST_DIR/tools/build/v2 directory rather than $BOOST_DIR. This directory has five .jam files: boost-build.jam, bootstrap.jam, build-system.jam, Jamroot.jam, site-config.jam and user-config.jam. Then I started thinking maybe editing this file will build boost.build for running on arm. I don't want to run boost.build on arm. I want it to use the cross compiler to build boost so that the libs will work with code that runs on arm. Summary, this is what I think I need to do. Please correct me where I am wrong. 1. using the tarfile I've downloaded, copy the $BOOST_DIR/tools/build/v2/user-config.jam file to my /home/davis directory. 2. edit the ~/user-config.jam file (I wish I could put this file in the $BOOST_DIR tree rather than my home dir) to use the cross compilers I have in my /opt/arm directory. 3. With the /opt/arm/ compiler directory in my path and in the $BOOST_DIR/tools/build/v2 directory issue the commands to build boost 3.a. $ ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=path/to/installation/prefix --with-toolset=gcc-arm 3.b this should add a b2 program in the path/to/installation/prefix dir. /path/to/installation/prefix will actually be /opt/arm/boot.build. This should have the boost build tool I build that runs on intel but is set to build boost for arm. 4. Change directory to $BOOST_DIR 4.a $ /path/to/installation/prefix/b2 --build-dir=/tmp/build-boost toolset=gcc-arm or literally /opt/arm/boot.build/bin?/b2 -build-dir=/tmp/build-boost toolset=gcc-arm 4.c $ /path/to/installtion/prefix/b2 install -- John F. Davis 6 Kandes Court Durham, NC 27713 919-888-8358 独树一帜

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Flyweight: wrapping shared_ptr
by Akim Demaille 22 Oct '14

22 Oct '14

Hi all, I'd like to add hash-consing on top of my hiearchy-based AST implementation, which uses shared_ptr (I'm in C++11) to guarantee value semantics (the pointee is const). Below is a tiny version that would help me see if using Boost.Flyweight is adequate. It works, but it is not transparent, because I have to explicitly call '.get()' on my flyweights to deference to the pointers. So for instance my code reads: size_t hash() const { size_t res = 0; hash_combine(res, boost::hash_value(op)); hash_combine(res, l.get()->hash()); hash_combine(res, r.get()->hash()); return res; } where I expect to have l->hash(), not l.get()->hash(). I have tried deriving from flyweight to add an operator->, but it fails horribly. I realize that it is suboptimal to use flyweight on top of shared_ptr, as I get two reference counters. Yet this change is less invasive than migrating my AST hierarchy to using variants as is done in the example of the documentation. What would be the right approach? Thanks a lot.

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Problem with bundled BGL properties
by alev mutlu 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

Hi all, I am new to BGL and the followings are snippets from my code. When I compile my code I get the following error. Any suggestions, error: no match for ‘operator=’ in ‘city_name.boost::vec_adj_list_vertex_property_map<Graph, GraphPtr, ValueType, Reference, Tag>::operator[] [with Graph = boost::adjacency_list<boost::vecS, boost::vecS, boost::directedS, relation, boost::property<boost::edge_name_t, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, boost::no_property>, boost::no_property, boost::listS>, GraphPtr = boost::adjacency_list<boost::vecS, boost::vecS, boost::directedS, relation, boost::property<boost::edge_name_t, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, boost::no_property>, boost::no_property, boost::listS>*, ValueType = boost::detail::error_property_not_found, Reference = boost::detail::error_property_not_found&, Tag = boost::vertex_name_t](v1) = r’ /home1/mutlu/boost/include/boost-1_37/boost/pending/detail/property.hpp:21: note: candidates are: boost::detail::error_property_not_found& boost::detail::error_property_not_found::operator=(const boost::detail::error_property_not_found&) struct argument{ int is_variable; string value; }; struct relation{ string relation_name; vector<argument> arguments; }; typedef property<edge_name_t, std::string> EdgeNameProperty; typedef adjacency_list<vecS, vecS, directedS, relation, EdgeNameProperty> Graph; int main(){ Graph g; property_map<Graph, vertex_name_t>::type city_name = get(vertex_name, g); property_map<Graph, edge_name_t>::type edge_value = get(edge_name, g); typedef graph_traits<Graph>::vertex_descriptor Vertex; typedef graph_traits<Graph>::edge_descriptor Edge; Vertex v1; v1 = add_vertex(g); city_name[v1]= r; } error: no match for ‘operator=’ in ‘city_name.boost::vec_adj_list_vertex_property_map<Graph, GraphPtr, ValueType, Reference, Tag>::operator[] [with Graph = boost::adjacency_list<boost::vecS, boost::vecS, boost::directedS, relation, boost::property<boost::edge_name_t, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, boost::no_property>, boost::no_property, boost::listS>, GraphPtr = boost::adjacency_list<boost::vecS, boost::vecS, boost::directedS, relation, boost::property<boost::edge_name_t, std::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>, std::allocator<char> >, boost::no_property>, boost::no_property, boost::listS>*, ValueType = boost::detail::error_property_not_found, Reference = boost::detail::error_property_not_found&, Tag = boost::vertex_name_t](v1) = r’ /home1/mutlu/boost/include/boost-1_37/boost/pending/detail/property.hpp:21: note: candidates are: boost::detail::error_property_not_found& boost::detail::error_property_not_found::operator=(const boost::detail::error_property_not_found&)

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1.57.0 beta 1 release candidates available for testing
by Marshall Clow 21 Oct '14

21 Oct '14

Release candidate files for 1.57.0 beta 1 are available at http://boost.cowic.de/rc/ As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy. This helps ensure the candidates build OK before we push them out to SourceForge. The files (and associated md5s) are: MD5 (boost_1_57_0_b1_rc1.7z) = 8633fbf5ebb7eaabcb0f309c14646ae3 MD5 (boost_1_57_0_b1_rc1.tar.bz2) = 8e76f98146793f0fbd2492a9151c405b MD5 (boost_1_57_0_b1_rc1.tar.gz) = d41ff3ffb36ac84ff5bf34f799308907 MD5 (boost_1_57_0_b1_rc1.zip) = 8a844dc36284247b2e936f2120e118b2 Thanks! -- The release managers

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1.57.0 beta 1 is now available
by Marshall Clow 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Boost release 1.57.0 beta 1 is now available from SourceForge See http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost-binaries/1.57.0.beta.1/ This release contains no new libraries. For details of what's in the release, see http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_57_0.html. Note that the links to files on this web page are for the final release - use the SourceForge link above to get the beta files. Please download the beta, give it a try, and report any problems you encounter. Thanks, -- The Boost Release Team P.S. There are a couple of known problems with this beta: * There are problems building with MSVC 8.0 * There are some problems with range/detail/any_iterator.hpp. These will be fixed before the release.

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Boost 1.56 with QT creator, “LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_unit_test_framework-vc100-mt-gd-1_56.lib'”
by Kavita 20 Oct '14

20 Oct '14

Hello, I am working on a project of boost unit testing framework using QT creator. I have written a small test program and trying to link "libboost_unit_test_framework-vc100-mt-gd-1_56.lib". This library is present at specified path. But program fails to compile giving said linking error. I searched on net and found that, error should go with "#define BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB". But then, I am getting below error: main.obj:-1: error: LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "class boost::unit_test::test_suite * __cdecl init_unit_test_suite(int,char * * const)" (?init_unit_test_suite@@YAPAVtest_suite@unit_test@boost@@HQAPAD@Z) referenced in function _main The above function is a part of "libboost_unit_test_framework-vc100-mt-gd-1_56.lib". I have written same unit tests using VS 2010 and with the same boost libraries. The program worked properly with expected behavior. What could be possibly going wrong with the usage of boost on QT ? Please help ! -Thanks

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[Log] Writing empty messages with the attributes as the actual payload
by Scott Mueller 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

Hello Boost.Users! I'm trying to integrate Boost logging with an existing message infrastructure. In this infrastructure, I have an existing schema that looks like this: Severity Timestamp Process source (much like "channel") Process component (more like a "sub-channel") Message ID A vector of arguments The message is rendered by looking up the message ID to receive the following information: formatting string ("This is an example of %1 message type. The arguments can look like this %4, 3, 2"), the expected argument types which are potentially convertible if the underlying type is different, and so on. I guess what I'm asking is whether or not a logging source can accept the arguments as defined by a compile-time defined schema in the form of attributes with an empty message. Can the logging core route message records defined in this way properly? Is such a thing supported? I'm in the process of writing something up to do this, but I'd like to know in advance whether or not "empty" messages with a bunch of attributes set can get routed to supported sinks. Thanks in advance for your help! Best regards, M. Scott Mueller

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boost serialisation 1.56, why does library version change, when no change in library ?
by avib369 . 16 Oct '14

16 Oct '14

At boost 1.53 the library version was 10, however at boost 1.56 it has jumped to 11. I have not seen any documentation/release notes about boost serialisation changes. What has changed in boost serialisation to merit this change ? The documentation in $BOOST_ROOT/libs/serialization/basic_archive.cpp describes the changes to boost library version, however it does *not* describe why it jumped from 10 -> 11. Any help appreciated. Ta, Avi

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