Hell I have been having an extremely tough time installing libtorrent and am unsure what the problems are. I have seen plenty similar errors online but the solutions were not helpful and I am pretty sure the error message is just too vague for comparison.
When I run ./configure I get
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Building libtorrent-rasterbar 0.16.5Checking for a C/C++ compiler to use:checking for gcc gccchecking whether the C compiler works yeschecking for C compiler default output file name a.outchecking for suffix of executables checking whether we are cross compiling nochecking for suffix of object files ochecking whether we are using the GNU C compiler yeschecking whether gcc accepts -g yeschecking for gcc option to accept ISO C89 none neededchecking how to run the C preprocessor gcc -Echecking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together yeschecking for g++ g++checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler yeschecking whether g++ accepts -g yeschecking how to run the C++ preprocessor g++ -Echecking whether g++ understands -c and -o together yes....Checking for boost libraries:checking for boostlib >= 1.36 yeschecking whether the Boost::System library is available yesconfigure: error: Boost.System library not found. Try using --with-boost-system=lib**
I then use the suggestion and the difference is that the bottom says
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Checking for boost libraries:checking for boostlib >= 1.36 yeschecking whether the Boost::System library is available yeschecking for exit in -llib nochecking for exit in -lboost_system-lib noconfigure: error: Could not link against boost_system-lib !**
the config.log file has an error
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configure:16572: result: noconfigure:16537: checking for exit in -lboost_system-libconfigure:16562: gcc -o conftest -lpthread -g -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -I/usr/include -L/usr/lib conftest.c -lboost_system-lib -lpthread >&5conftest.c:33: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 'exit'/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_system-libcollect2: ld returned 1 exit status**
Any insight would be enormously appreciated
after installing
apt-get install libboost-system-dev
apt-get install libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-thread-dev
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Checking features to be enabled:checking whether encryption support should be enabled yesconfigure: encryption support: now checking for the OpenSSL librarychecking for pkg-config /usr/bin/pkg-configchecking for openssl/ssl.h in /usr/local/ssl nochecking for openssl/ssl.h in /usr/lib/ssl nochecking for openssl/ssl.h in /usr/ssl nochecking for openssl/ssl.h in /usr/pkg nochecking for openssl/ssl.h in /usr/local nochecking for openssl/ssl.h in /usr... nochecking whether compiling and linking against OpenSSL works noconfigure: error: OpenSSL library not found. Try using --with-openssl=DIR or disabling encryption at all.Advertisement
Answer
You need to install libboost-system.
If you are using Debian/Ubuntu, use apt-get as follows.
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$ apt-get install libboost-system-devYou may also need to install …
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$ apt-get install libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-thread-dev