how to use std::filesystem on gcc 8?

Question

I have updated version of gcc, gcc --version produces the following output

    gcc (Ubuntu 8.1.0-5ubuntu1~16.04) 8.1.0
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Answer 1

Add the filesystem library as an argument to your compiler that will be forwarded to the linker. Also make sure you are using C++17. Both g++ and clang++ accepts this particular format:

--std=c++17 -lstdc++fs