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ravas

Feb 03, 2016; 2:30am

boost

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Download boost 1.53 from: boost download. Do not try version 1.54, 1.55 or 1.56 (there are compilation errors as of 12 Oct 2014).

http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/LibreCAD_Installation_from_Source#Custom_files

I'm curious: has anyone tried building with boost 1.6?

dxli

Feb 03, 2016; 4:25am

Re: boost

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just tested on my Gentoo, not problem with boost-1.60.0

ravas wrote

Download boost 1.53 from: boost download. Do not try version 1.54, 1.55 or 1.56 (there are compilation errors as of 12 Oct 2014).

http://wiki.librecad.org/index.php/LibreCAD_Installation_from_Source#Custom_files

I'm curious: has anyone tried building with boost 1.6?

ravas

Feb 03, 2016; 5:53am

Re: boost

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Thanks!

dxli

Feb 03, 2016; 6:43pm

Re: boost

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need to figure out why there's a boost problem (1.54.0 and after) on win32

ravas wrote

Thanks!

ravas

Feb 03, 2016; 8:46pm

Re: boost

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I downloaded 1.6 and unzipped it in the same folder as 1.53
then went to custom.pro to find it unedited... so I'm not sure how the boost version is determined.
It built a working installer; however I don't know what version of boost it used (I did edit custom.pro to indicate 1.6).

dxli

Feb 03, 2016; 9:38pm

Re: boost

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better to unzip it to an empty folder.

for example:

for example after unzipping it:

you have something similar to:

~/tmp/boost/boost_1_60_0/boost/version.hpp

for *nix, I found the scripts are looking for: include/boost/version.hpp

then, I rename the folder structure to:

~/tmp/boost/include/boost/version.hpp

to specify boost header location:

specify the variable BOOST_DIR in custom.pri

BOOST_DIR=/home/dli/tmp/boost/

ravas wrote

I downloaded 1.6 and unzipped it in the same folder as 1.53
then went to custom.pro to find it unedited... so I'm not sure how the boost version is determined.
It built a working installer; however I don't know what version of boost it used (I did edit custom.pro to indicate 1.6).

ravas

Feb 03, 2016; 9:57pm

Re: boost

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Thanks.

I found boost.pri

win32 {

exists( "$$(BOOST_DIR)" ) { # Is it set in the environment?
BOOST_DIR = "$$(BOOST_DIR)" # Yes, use
} else:isEmpty( BOOST_DIR ) { # Is it set in custom.pro?
BOOST_DIR = "/boost/boost_1_53_0" # No, hardcode
}

!exists( "$${BOOST_DIR}/boost/version.hpp" ) {
error( "Can not find Boost installation in $${BOOST_DIR}" )
}

BOOST_INCDIR = "$${BOOST_DIR}"

INCLUDEPATH += "$${BOOST_INCDIR}"
HEADERS += "$${BOOST_INCDIR}"

}
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I didn't need to edit custom.pro when using 1.53 because it selects 1.53 automatically if custom.pro is not edited.

So I would say my build today did use 1.6 because I edited custom.pro

Note that custom.pro is not ignored by git; my edits show up in the diffs.

ravas

Feb 03, 2016; 10:05pm

Re: boost

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Is it supposed to be custom.pro or custom.pri?

How is else:isEmpty( BOOST_DIR ) checking custom.pro?
I see in the unix section BOOST_DIR = $$findBoostDirIn( /usr /usr/local /usr/pkg /opt/local )
but there is nothing similar in the win32 section.

ravas

Feb 04, 2016; 12:25am

Re: boost

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I found in common.pri

# include user-defined things in every qmake project
exists( custom.pro ):include( custom.pro )
exists( custom.pri ):include( custom.pri )

Is this sufficient or do we need the same in boost.pri?

The contents of the given file are included in the project file at the place where the include function is used.

http://doc.qt.io/qt-4.8/qmake-project-files.html#built-in-functions-and-control-flow

ravas

Feb 04, 2016; 6:32am

Re: boost

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I got rid of 1.53 and built again... no problems.

ravas

Feb 04, 2016; 7:15pm

Re: boost

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This post was updated on Feb 04, 2016; 10:20pm.

I don't know how build-windows.bat built an installer without any errors, but...
when I loaded up Qt creator today it complained about not being able to find the 1_53 folder.
It turns out boost.pri does need to include(custom.pro)
https://github.com/LibreCAD/LibreCAD/commit/294a6a4ea87a2177cbf6dc96f62abc2464d44d50

However... it turns out there are building issues with 1.6

C:\boost\boost_1_60_0\boost\math\constants\constants.hpp:278: error: unable to find numeric literal operator 'operator""Q'
BOOST_DEFINE_MATH_CONSTANT(third, 3.333333333333333333333333333333333333e-01, "3.33333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333333e-01")
^

C:\boost\boost_1_60_0\boost\math\constants\constants.hpp:316: use -std=gnu++11 or -fext-numeric-literals to enable more built-in suffixes
BOOST_DEFINE_MATH_CONSTANT(e_pow_pi, 2.314069263277926900572908636794854738e+01, "2.31406926327792690057290863679485473802661062426002119934450464095243423506904527835169719970675492196759527048e+01")
^

Note the recommendation: "use -std=gnu++11 or -fext-numeric-literals to enable more built-in suffixes"

I'm not sure how to set that up for the project.
Possibly relevant links I found:
https://github.com/pcb2gcode/pcb2gcode/pull/19#issuecomment-157070685
http://www.joshuaburkholder.com/blog/2013/09/17/how-to-compile-boost-using-gpp-std-cpp11-from-mingw/

ravas

Feb 04, 2016; 7:56pm

Re: boost

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The commit from the aforementioned github issue
https://github.com/pcb2gcode/pcb2gcode/commit/c4413c61115181faca8d5c548ea0b6f03e4140cc
which links to
https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9240

ravas

Feb 05, 2016; 12:07am

Re: boost

870 posts

I think I solved it by adding
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -fext-numeric-literals
under
CONFIG += c++11
in src.pro

dxli

Feb 05, 2016; 12:10am

Re: boost

1984 posts

great!

hope that's not a problem for all platforms (OSX, BSD, even raspberry pi).

ravas wrote

I think I solved it by adding
QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -fext-numeric-literals
under
CONFIG += c++11
in src.pro