I'm not extremely familiar with the linux filesystem, having moved from windows, but I do have a decent amount of experience with C++ and the Boost libraries in windows. Having switched Fedora 17, can anyone tell me if there is a certain directory where I should install Boost to get it working the gnu compiler?
Note: if it matters, I don't use an IDE I use vim for most of my programming.
There are a few ways of setting up the boost libraries on linux.
Save yourself some pain, use your package manager to install the Boost libs. You'll be grateful in the long run.
If you absolutely must do it yourself, simply put it anywhere so long as it's in the gcc include path. This is /usr/local/include/ or /usr/include/ for headers and /usr/local/lib/ or /usr/lib/ for libraries
Finally if for some reason that isn't possible, use the -I switch with g++ to specify the path to boost. (but this would only be necessary if 1 and 2 aren't possible)
sudo apt-get install boost done :)
libboost-all-dev ( re: @jozefg's comment ). see also here.Use your package manager to install boost libraries, for debian ubuntu it is like:
sudo aptitude install libboost-system1.49.0-dev for centos6 it is
yum install boost-devel I had issues installing boost using yum (recently installed Fedora 17).. so I unzipped the boost tar ball to my /opt.
so g++ -I /opt/boost/boost_1_51_0 works like a charm.
From the introduction to boost:
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_51_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html
you can put it anywhere you like. And then you compile with something like this
c++ -I path/to/boost_1_51_0 example.cpp -o example \ -L~/boost/stage/lib/ -lboost_regex-gcc34-mt-d-1_36 "c++" can be g++ or clang++ for example.
