Boost provides free, peer-reviewed and portable C++ source libraries.
On Iceberg, different versions of Boost were built using different versions of the gcc compiler, where each version of GCC provides a potentially different version of the C++ standard library. We therefore suggest that you use the matching version of gcc to build your code.
Boost 1.60.0 was built using gcc 4.9.2. To make both the compiler and Boost library available to the system, execute the following module commands while in a qrsh or qsh session
module load libs/gcc/4.9.2/boost/1.60.0
Boost 1.59 was built using gcc 5.2. To make both the compiler and Boost library available to the system, execute the following module commands while in a qrsh or qsh session
module load compilers/gcc/5.2
module load libs/gcc/5.2/boost/1.59
Boost version 1.58 was built using gcc 4.8.2. To make both the compiler and Boost library available to the system, execute the following module commands while in a qrsh or qsh session
module load compilers/gcc/4.8.2
module load libs/gcc/4.8.2/boost/1.58
Version 1.41 of Boost uses version 4.4.7 of the gcc compiler. Since this is the default version of gcc on the system, you only need to load the module for the library
module load libs/gcc/4.4.7/boost/1.41
Many boost libraries are header-only which makes them particularly simple to compile. The following program reads a sequence of integers from standard input, uses Boost.Lambda to multiply each number by three, and writes them to standard output (taken from http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_58_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html):
#include <boost/lambda/lambda.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <iterator>
#include <algorithm>
int main()
{
using namespace boost::lambda;
typedef std::istream_iterator<int> in;
std::for_each(
in(std::cin), in(), std::cout << (_1 * 3) << " " );
}
Copy this into a file called example1.cpp and compile with:
g++ example1.cpp -o example
Provided you loaded the correct modules given above, the program should compile without error.
The following program is taken from the official Boost documentation http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_58_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html
#include <boost/regex.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main()
{
std::string line;
boost::regex pat( "^Subject: (Re: |Aw: )*(.*)" );
while (std::cin)
{
std::getline(std::cin, line);
boost::smatch matches;
if (boost::regex_match(line, matches, pat))
std::cout << matches[2] << std::endl;
}
}
This program makes use of the Boost.Regex library, which has a separately-compiled binary component we need to link to. Assuming that the above program is called example2.cpp, compile with the following command:
g++ example2.cpp -o example2 -lboost_regex
If you get an error message that looks like this:
example2.cpp:1:27: error: boost/regex.hpp: No such file or directory
the most likely cause is that you forgot to load the correct modules as detailed above.
This section is primarily for administrators of the system
version 1.59: Compiled with gcc 5.2 and icu version 55
module load compilers/gcc/5.2
module load libs/gcc/4.8.2/libunistring/0.9.5
module load libs/gcc/4.8.2/icu/55
mkdir -p /usr/local/packages6/libs/gcc/5.2/boost/1.59.0/
tar -xvzf ./boost_1_59_0.tar.gz
cd boost_1_59_0
./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/local/packages6/libs/gcc/5.2/boost/1.59.0/
It complained that it could not find the icu library but when I ran
./b2 install --prefix=/usr/local/packages6/libs/gcc/5.2/boost/1.59.0/
It said that it had detected the icu library and was compiling it in
Version 1.58: Compiled with gcc 4.8.2 and icu version 55
module load compilers/gcc/4.8.2
module load libs/gcc/4.8.2/libunistring/0.9.5
module load libs/gcc/4.8.2/icu/55
tar -xvzf ./boost_1_58_0.tar.gz
cd boost_1_58_0
./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/local/packages6/libs/gcc/4.8.2/boost/1.58.0/
It complained that it could not find the icu library but when I ran
./b2 install --prefix=/usr/local/packages6/libs/gcc/4.8.2/boost/1.58.0
It said that it had detected the icu library and was compiling it in
Version 1.41: This build of boost was built with gcc 4.4.7 and ICU version 42
module load libs/gcc/4.4.7/icu/42
tar -xvzf ./boost_1_41_0.tar.gz
cd boost_1_41_0
./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/local/packages6/libs/gcc/4.4.7/boost/1.41
./bjam -sICU_PATH=/usr/local/packages6/libs/gcc/4.4.7/icu/42 install
The two examples above were compiled and run.
Version 1.60.0
Module file location: /usr/local/modulefiles/libs/gcc/4.9.2/boost/1.60.0
#%Module1.0#####################################################################
##
## boost 1.60.0 module file
##
## Module file logging
source /usr/local/etc/module_logging.tcl
##
set vers 1.60.0
set gccvers 4.9.2
module load compilers/gcc/$gccvers
module load libs/gcc/4.8.2/libunistring/0.9.5
module load libs/gcc/$gccvers/icu/58.1
proc ModulesHelp { } {
global vers
global gccvers
puts stderr "Makes the Boost $vers library (plus gcc $gccvers) available"
}
module-whatis puts stderr "Makes the Boost $vers library (plus gcc $gccvers) available"
set BOOST_DIR /usr/local/packages6/libs/gcc/$gccvers/boost/$vers
prepend-path LD_LIBRARY_PATH $BOOST_DIR/lib
prepend-path CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH $BOOST_DIR/include
prepend-path LIBRARY_PATH $BOOST_DIR/lib
Version 1.59
Module file location: /usr/local/modulefiles/libs/gcc/5.2/boost/1.59
#%Module1.0#####################################################################
##
## boost 1.59 module file
##
## Module file logging
source /usr/local/etc/module_logging.tcl
##
module load libs/gcc/4.8.2/libunistring/0.9.5
module load libs/gcc/4.8.2/icu/55
proc ModulesHelp { } {
puts stderr "Makes the Boost 1.59 library available"
}
set BOOST_DIR /usr/local/packages6/libs/gcc/5.2/boost/1.59.0
module-whatis "Makes the Boost 1.59 library available"
prepend-path LD_LIBRARY_PATH $BOOST_DIR/lib
prepend-path CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH $BOOST_DIR/include
prepend-path LIBRARY_PATH $BOOST_DIR/lib
Version 1.58
Module file location: /usr/local/modulefiles/libs/gcc/4.8.2/boost/1.58
#%Module1.0#####################################################################
##
## boost 1.58 module file
##
## Module file logging
source /usr/local/etc/module_logging.tcl
##
module load libs/gcc/4.8.2/libunistring/0.9.5
module load libs/gcc/4.8.2/icu/55
proc ModulesHelp { } {
puts stderr "Makes the Boost 1.58 library available"
}
set BOOST_DIR /usr/local/packages6/libs/gcc/4.8.2/boost/1.58.0
module-whatis "Makes the Boost 1.58 library available"
prepend-path LD_LIBRARY_PATH $BOOST_DIR/lib
prepend-path CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH $BOOST_DIR/include
prepend-path LIBRARY_PATH $BOOST_DIR/lib
Version 1.41
The module file is on the system at /usr/local/modulefiles/libs/gcc/4.4.7/boost/1.41
#%Module1.0#####################################################################
##
## Boost 1.41 module file
##
## Module file logging
source /usr/local/etc/module_logging.tcl
##
module load libs/gcc/4.4.7/icu/42
proc ModulesHelp { } {
puts stderr "Makes the Boost 1.41 library available"
}
set BOOST_DIR /usr/local/packages6/libs/gcc/4.4.7/boost/1.41
module-whatis "Makes the Boost 1.41 library available"
prepend-path LD_LIBRARY_PATH $BOOST_DIR/lib
prepend-path CPLUS_INCLUDE_PATH $BOOST_DIR/include
prepend-path LIBRARY_PATH $BOOST_DIR/lib