Is it possible to detect any cycle in a directed graph with the adjacency_matrix of the Boost Graph Library? My test program has this compile errors: adjacency_matrix_is_cyclic.cpp:6: error: expected initializer before ‘<’ token adjacency_matrix_is_cyclic.cpp:9: error: expected class-name before ‘{’ token adjacency_matrix_is_cyclic.cpp:14: error: ‘edge_t’ has not been declared adjacency_matrix_is_cyclic.cpp: In function ‘bool has_cycle(const Graph&)’: adjacency_matrix_is_cyclic.cpp:26: error: ‘generic_dfs_v1’ was not declared in this scope $ cat adjacency_matrix_is_cyclic.cpp #include <iostream> #include <boost/graph/graph_utility.hpp> #include <boost/graph/adjacency_matrix.hpp> typedef boost::adjacency_matrix<boost::directedS> Graph; typedef graph_traits<Graph>::edge_descriptor edge_t; struct cycle_detector : public dfs_visitor_default { cycle_detector(bool & cycle): has_cycle(cycle) { } void back_edge(edge_t, const Graph &) { has_cycle = true; } bool & has_cycle; }; bool has_cycle(const Graph & g) { bool has_cycle = false; cycle_detector vis(has_cycle); generic_dfs_v1(g, vis); return has_cycle; } enum { A, B, C, D, E, F, N }; const char* name = "ABCDEF"; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { Graph g(N); add_edge(B, C, g); add_edge(B, F, g); add_edge(C, A, g); add_edge(C, C, g); add_edge(D, E, g); add_edge(E, D, g); add_edge(F, A, g); std::cout << "vertex set: "; boost::print_vertices(g, name); std::cout << std::endl; std::cout << "edge set: "; boost::print_edges(g, name); std::cout << std::endl; std::cout << "out-edges: " << std::endl; boost::print_graph(g, name); std::cout << std::endl; std::cout << "has_cycle(g) " << has_cycle(g) << std::endl; return 0; }