Make error on Ubuntu 15.10 (undefined reference to boost::filesystem::path_traits::dispatch) about cpprestsdk

[dbergan]

Possibly related... When I ran:
sudo apt-get install g++-4.8 g++ git make libboost1.54-all-dev libssl-dev cmake

It had an error on libboost...

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package libboost1.54-all-dev
E: Couldn't find any package by regex 'libboost1.54-all-dev'

So I used this instead:
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev

And that installed libboost1.58 instead of 1.54

[robertbindar]

I couldn't make it work with 1.58 boost, it did compile though with 1.54. But now I've just written a simple http server and I cannot reply to any http request. Calling http_request::reply method causes a SIGSEGV every time. Does anyone know something about this?

[damienhocking]

David,

A while back I posted Linux build instructions here:

https://casablanca.codeplex.com/discussions/571458

We use that to build on Linux, it makes it easier to update your own Boost versions etc. It still works today with Casablanca 2.7 and Boost 1.59.

Damien

[ras0219-msft]

The original issue was that we were not properly linking boost_filesystem into the test_runner executable. Once I check in the fix for that, we should work on ubuntu 15.10 with boost 1.58.

[ras0219-msft]

The fix for this is checked in and we should now build cleanly on Ubuntu 15.10. Please try it out and let us know if this solves your issues.

[rohit06nitbpl]

hi, I am trying to build casablanca today

I also get error:

CMakeFiles/test_runner.dir/test_runner.cpp.o: In function load_all_tests(test_module_loader&)': test_runner.cpp:(.text+0xc47): undefined reference toboost::filesystem::path_traits::dispatch(boost::filesystem::directory_entry const&, std::string&)'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
tests/common/TestRunner/CMakeFiles/test_runner.dir/build.make:113: recipe for target 'Binaries/test_runner' failed
make[2]: *** [Binaries/test_runner] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:265: recipe for target 'tests/common/TestRunner/CMakeFiles/test_runner.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [tests/common/TestRunner/CMakeFiles/test_runner.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:126: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

[rohit06nitbpl]

Please Help :(

[ras0219-msft]

Are you building the current master branch or the development branch? The changes are only present in the development branch. Make sure you have commit 95478a4 in your git log.

[epot]

I have the same issue with version 2.8.0 which contains the commit you are referring to. Any clue ?

[epot]

Any news on this one ? I am not able to use the SDK on Linux...

[epot]

Actually, I think the getting started guide is misleading: it suggests to force the compiler to gcc4.8 but it does not work if the boost package has been compiled with another compiler. On Ubuntu 15.10, I am now using the default gcc compiler coming with the distribution (5.2.1) and I am able to compile cpprestsdk just fine.

[ras0219-msft]

Yes, that would be the issue. Thank you for bringing it up; it should no longer be needed to explicitly specify gcc-4.8 and it is clearly causing issues like the one you had.