Linking Boost Library in Linux

Question

I am trying to build a project using Boost\'s Asio and I am having some trouble. Initially, I tried to build the project without any additional libraries since everything i

Answer 1

Change -llibboost_system to -lboost_system.

In linux, the "lib" prefix in front of a library is not used when referencing said library.

Answer 2

In this case james' answer was correct, but if anybody else happens to stumble upon this post like I did then be aware that you can get this message if you link old boost headers against newer libraries. get_system_category() specifically has been deprecated. I ran into this problem while accidentally including distro-provided headers but linking against my own internal copy of boost.

Answer 3

If you still get problems you might want to include posix-threads by adding to the linker flags:

-lpthread