How to asynchronously read input from command line using boost asio in Windows?

Question

I found this question which asks how to read input asynchronously, but will only work with POSIX stream descriptors, which won\'t work on Windows. So, I found this tutorial

Answer 1

You need to invoke io_service::run() to start the event processing loop for asynchronous operations.

class Example {
    public:
        Example( boost::asio::io_service& io_service )
            : io_service(io_service), input_buffer( INPUT_BUFFER_LENGTH), input_handle( io_service)
        {
        }
        void start_reading();
        void handle_read( const boost::system::error_code& error, std::size_t length);
        void handle_write( const boost::system::error_code& error);
    private:
        boost::asio::io_service& io_service;
        boost::asio::streambuf input_buffer;
        boost::asio::windows::stream_handle input_handle;
};

int main( int argc, char * argv)
{
    boost::asio::io_service io_service;
    Example obj( io_service );
    obj.start_reading();

    io_service.run();

    return 0;
}