[OpenWalnut-Dev] boost program_options linker error

[Sebastian Eichelbaum]

Btw, I am using clang 3.5.2

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, Sebastian Eichelbaum wrote:

>Hi list,
>
>I recently updated my system and now use boost 1.58. Unfortunately, 
>there is an issue when building the qt gui/scriptui. Both use 
>boost::program_options. When linking, the linker complains about the 
>missing reference "boost::program_options::arg".
>
>The mighty internet provides two solutions:
>
>1) missing explicit linking to boost_program_options (-l)
>2) definition of "BOOST_PROGRAM_OPTIONS_DYN_LINK" something.
>
>Both "solutions" did not work. Please be so kind to check this on 
>your systems, especially when using boost 1.58. It is a critical 
>issue. We cannot release OpenWalnut when it does not compile/link on 
>this boost version.
>
>You can trace down the issue to boost/program_options/config.hpp and 
>boost/program_options/detail/value_semantic.hpp. Something is wrong 
>there. BUT we cannot fix this in there. It is out of reach.
>
>As a workaround for you if you need to get it work again (DO NOT 
>commit), replace the program_options include in OpenWalnut.cpp with
>
>namespace boost { namespace program_options { std::string arg; } }
>#include <boost/program_options.hpp>
>
>
>Cheers
>
>Sebastian
>
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