[HELP] CentOS 6 Boost libraries

[ibab]

Hello.

I'm quite new with CentOS 6 and everything and I ran into a problem where I don't have boost libraries but should get those. Therefore, I am here to ask where can I get those boost libraries and how do I install them?

I do believe boost, boost-devel and boost-doc weren't those as I installed them but that didn't solve my problem.

So where can I find the files I need to install on the CentOS 6 and how I install them?

Thanks in advance.

[drl]

Hi.

When I installed CentOS 6 the boost libraries apparently were installed. On my system:

$ yum list boost
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, refresh-packagekit
Installed Packages
boost.i686         1.41.0-11.el6          @anaconda-centos-201106051823.i386/6.0
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I found a sample program to report the size of a file at: Filesystem Tutorial

Here is a short script that reports the context of compiling and running the example. The c++ code is listed, then the compiler is called, and the resulting binary is executed:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# @(#) sh-minimal	Demonstrate minimal environment for quick scripts.

# Utility functions: print-as-echo, print-line-with-visual-space, debug.
# export PATH="/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin"
pe() { for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done; printf "\n"; }
pl() { pe;pe "-----" ;pe "$*"; }
db() { ( printf " db, ";for _i;do printf "%s" "$_i";done;printf "\n" ) >&2 ; }
db() { : ; }
C=$HOME/bin/context && [ -f $C ] && $C g++

FILE=${1-tut1.cpp}

pl " Input data file $FILE:"
cat $FILE

# Create a small sample file.
pe hi > sample.txt

pl " Results, using one of the many libraries in /usr/lib/boost:"
g++ $FILE -l boost_filesystem
./a.out sample.txt

exit 0

producing:

$ ./s1

Environment: LC_ALL = C, LANG = C
(Versions displayed with local utility "version")
OS, ker|rel, machine: Linux, 2.6.32-71.29.1.el6.i686, i686
Distribution        : CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)
GNU bash 4.1.2
g++ (GCC) 4.4.4 20100726 (Red Hat 4.4.4-13)

-----
 Input data file tut1.cpp:
//  filesystem tut1.cpp  ---------------------------------------------------------------//

//  Copyright Beman Dawes 2009

//  Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
//  See http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt

//  Library home page: http://www.boost.org/libs/filesystem

#include <iostream>
#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>
using namespace boost::filesystem;

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
  if (argc < 2)
  {
    std::cout << "Usage: tut1 path\n";
    return 1;
  }
  std::cout << argv[1] << " " << file_size(argv[1]) << '\n';
  return 0;
}


-----
 Results, using one of the many libraries in /usr/lib/boost:
sample.txt 3

The difficult part was finding the correct library for the compile and link.

Best wishes ... cheers, drl