I have installed libboost-dev
through apt-get
, and it's placed in /usr/lib
.
/usr/lib$ ls | grep boost
libboost_filesystem.so.1.46.1
libboost_iostreams.so.1.46.1
libboost_serialization.so.1.46.1
libboost_system.so.1.46.1
libboost_thread.so.1.46.1
libboost_wserialization.so.1.46.1
But when I tried to compile a source that uses boost_thread
I still got a error.
$ g++ tcp_echo.cpp -o tcp_echo -L/usr/lib -llibboost_thread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_thread
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
$ g++ tcp_echo.cpp -o tcp_echo -L/usr/lib -lboost_thread
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_thread
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
What's the right way to install and link to libboost
?
One thing I notice is that you do have no libboost_thread.so. You have the versioned 1.46.1 file but usually libraries will create a symbolic link to the versioned copy with the undecorated name. That might not be it but it's one thing I noticed. (This is typically done by the installer.) – Omaha
I think this is the point. It imply that I installed libboost
the wrong way. In fact, I only installed libboost-dev
:
sudo apt-get install libboost-dev
But what should I do is:
sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libboost1.46-doc libboost-date-time1.46-dev ibboost-filesystem1.46-dev libboost-graph1.46-dev libboost-iostreams1.46-dev libboost-math1.46-dev libboost-program-options1.46-dev libboost-python1.46-dev libboost-random1.46-dev libboost-regex1.46-dev libboost-serialization1.46-dev libboost-signals1.46-dev libboost-system1.46-dev libboost-test1.46-dev libboost-thread1.46-dev libboost-wave1.46-dev
(Or, in my particular case, install libboost-system1.46-dev libboost-thread1.46-dev
at least)
And once you install them correctly, there should be .a
and .so
in /usr/lib
.
/usr/lib$ ls | grep boost
libboost_date_time.a
libboost_date_time-mt.a
libboost_date_time-mt.so
libboost_date_time.so
libboost_date_time.so.1.46.1
libboost_filesystem.a
libboost_filesystem-mt.a
... and so on ...
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