Hello, when I am trying to link boost::filesystem into my program I am receiving link errors. I am trying to convert from boost 1_34_1 to 1_36_0- previously this built against 1_34_1 without any issue.
When I link I get the following error:
/home/kstevens/code/CrossingEngine/../lib/libtypes.a(Config_Constants.o): In function `boost::enable_if, boost::filesystem::path_traits> >, bool>::type boost::filesystem::exists, boost::filesystem::path_traits> >(boost::filesystem::basic_path, boost::filesystem::path_traits> const&)':
/usr/include/boost/filesystem/operations.hpp:279: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::detail::status_api(std::basic_string const&, int&)'
I did an objdump -CT on libboost_filesystem-gcc42-mt-1_36.so and got the following two functions as output but not the one the linker appears to be looking for:
000000000000c4e0 g DF .text 00000000000000e3 Base boost::filesystem::detail::status_api(std::string const&, boost::system::error_code&)
000000000000c720 g DF .text 00000000000000e3 Base boost::filesystem::detail::symlink_status_api(std::string const&, boost::system::error_code&)
Could this be a bad build? Am I missing something- perhaps I need to link another file in? I built 1_36_0 myself using a default configuration other than telling it where to put the output libs. I have ensured that I am linking against and including headers from 1_36_0, and have also made a clean build. Is there anything else I should try?
Thank you,
-Kevin
This is my code snippet that uses boost::filesystem:
//Create Directory if it does not already exist.
if(!boost::filesystem::exists(reportFilePath))
{
cout << "output path: " << reportFilePath << " did not exist, which may indicate a different configuration than was intended, creating directory now." << endl;
try
{
boost::filesystem::path path(reportFilePath);
boost::filesystem::create_directory(path);
}
catch(boost::filesystem::filesystem_error e)
{
cout << "Error: " << e.what() << endl;
}
}
