getting Boost working in centos 5.5

Question

This sounds like it should be simple, but it is proving to be impossible to accomplish.

I installed with the following command:

sudo yum install boost boost-devel boost-doc

Then, I started to added the following to my header file

#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>

and I promptly got the following error:

error: boost/filesystem.hpp: No such file or directory

I know that boost is partially working because when I use this header:

#include <boost/lambda/lambda.hpp>

i don't get compilation issues.

I know that I need to somehow build certain libraries like filesystem

However, I have not been able to find instructions anywhere on the entire internet for how to do this for CentOS 5. There is no bootstrap.sh or ./bjam for me to use.

Answer 1

I just looked at the RHEL 5.5 RPM for boost-devel , and it is missing /usr/include/boost/filesystem.hpp . The RPMs have Boost 1.33.1, and that version did not have boost/filesystem.hpp in it. You should upgrade to a newer version of Boost or write your code using the documentation for Boost 1.33.1 (available at http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_33_1/libs/filesystem/doc/index.htm ).