fatal error: 'boost/program_options.hpp' file not found

[cryptix]

Hey,

I can't get audiowaveform to build on OSX 10.11. I installed the dependencies as described in the README with brew but get the following error during make:

vpnweb-0349% make
[  1%] Generating doc/audiowaveform.1.gz
[  3%] Generating doc/audiowaveform.5.gz
[  3%] Built target doc
[  4%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/audiowaveform.dir/src/Main.cpp.o
In file included from /Users/cryptix/audiowaveform/src/Main.cpp:25:
/Users/cryptix/audiowaveform/src/Options.h:31:10: fatal error: 'boost/program_options.hpp' file not found
#include <boost/program_options.hpp>
         ^
1 error generated.
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/audiowaveform.dir/src/Main.cpp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/audiowaveform.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

[cryptix]

Apperantly, the options of the brew formular for boost changed:

vpnweb-0349% brew info boost                
boost: stable 1.58.0 (bottled), HEAD
Collection of portable C++ source libraries
http://www.boost.org
/usr/local/Cellar/boost/1.58.0 (10718 files, 478M) *
  Poured from bottle
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/boost.rb
==> Dependencies
Optional: icu4c ✘
==> Options
--c++11
    Build using C++11 mode
--universal
    Build a universal binary
--with-icu4c
    Build regexp engine with icu support
--with-mpi
    Build with MPI support
--without-single
    Disable building single-threading variant
--without-static
    Disable building static library variant
--HEAD
    Install HEAD version

Edit: Trying that now.. compiling.. Rebuild done, problem persists.

[thom4parisot]

Ah, have you tried with brew install boost --c++11?

[chrisn]

It looks like the include path isn't being set correctly. What value is reported for Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS in the output from cmake? You should see something like this (from an Ubuntu system):

-- Boost version: 1.46.1
-- Found the following Boost libraries:
--   program_options
--   filesystem
--   regex
--   system
-- Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS='/usr/include'
-- Boost_LIBRARIES='/usr/lib/libboost_program_options-mt.so;/usr/lib/libboost_filesystem-mt.so;/usr/lib/libboost_regex-mt.so;/usr/lib/libboost_system-mt.so'

Also, maybe this question on StackOverflow is of help (/usr/local/include isn't in the compiler's include path).

[renatoargh]

I am also having this exact problem +1

[chrisn]

Have you tried the above suggestion? Where are the boost headers installed on your system? Is there any more detail you can share to help us track down the problem?

[renatoargh]

@chrisn After carefully reading the Q on StackOverflow I added -I and -L parameters to the make command and that worked despite some minor warnings. Thats what I did:

Thanks user657267, I just ran it and updated the question with the output. I just noticed if I add -I /usr/local/include and -L /usr/local/lib to my makefile then it seems to compile alright (but a lot of warnings from boost for things like warning: unused typedef 'boost_concept_check261' which I never had before. – Jack Simpson

And got it to work! Thank you!

[roypardi]

I had this issue too – OSX 10.9.5. The solution provided by the Stackoverflow question concerning the installing the xcode command line tools using xcode-select --install solved my problem – though I also had about 30+ warnings.

http://stackoverflow.com/a/32929012/840992

You should install the Xcode Command Line tools with xcode-select --install to get a version of clang that searches /usr/local by default. Otherwise, you're using the versions provided by Xcode proper, which only search the OS X SDK paths. (/usr/bin/gcc and /usr/bin/g++ both invoke clang and are not actually versions of gcc.)

[fraserxu]

@renatoargh Do you mean run make -I /usr/local/include -L /usr/local/lib?