Re: [Quantlib-dev] Could you define BOOST_FILESYSTEM_VERSION for basic_filesystem_error backward compatibility?

[Kim K. T. <kue...@vo...>]

Hi Piter,

Eric will include this fix in the next release.
See the email:

Best regards,
Kim

Hi Kim,

Quoting Kim Kuen Tang <kue...@vo...>:

> The compilation of QLXL together with boost 1.46.1 seems to fail due to
> the refactorization of
>
> boost/filesystem/path.hpp
>
> To overcome this one needs to define a macro
>
> # define BOOST_FILESYSTEM_VERSION 2
>
> at the beginning of the  serializationfactory.cpp file. This will
> redirect the compiler to the correct file.

Big thanks for this fix, it will be included in the next release.

Kind Regards,
Eric

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Am 25.04.2011 00:05, schrieb Piter Dias:
>
> Guys,
>
> I had to setup my development environment from scratch (hd formatting) 
> and got an error that says basic_filesystem_error is not member 
> of boost::filesystem while compiling QuantLibXL. I believe the problem 
> was on "ohxllib".
>
> This is due to a new default option of Boost 1.46 and upwards. It uses 
> Filesystem library version 3 by default while QuantLib is compatible 
> with version 2.
>
> The issue is easily solved by the code below
>
> #define BOOST_FILESYSTEM_VERSION 2
>
> as explained in 
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/libs/filesystem/v3/doc/index.htm.
>
> Perhaps you guys want to add this piece of code somewhere in order to 
> control QuantLib/Boost compatibility.
>
> Regards,
>
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