Boost filesystem tutorial won't compile

Question

I try to compile the boost filesystem tutorial in Code::Blocks And it comes up these errors

Linking console executable: bin\Debug\Boost fs tut1.exe
obj\Debug\main.o: In function `_static_initialization_and_destruction_0':
D:/Documents/Coding/Libs/boost/boost/system/error_code.hpp:214: undefined reference to `boost::system::generic_category()'
D:/Documents/Coding/Libs/boost/boost/system/error_code.hpp:215: undefined reference to `boost::system::generic_category()'
D:/Documents/Coding/Libs/boost/boost/system/error_code.hpp:216: undefined reference to `boost::system::system_category()'
obj\Debug\main.o: In function `ZN5boost11filesystem34path7codecvtEv':
D:/Documents/Coding/Libs/boost/boost/filesystem/v3/path.hpp:388: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem3::path::wchar_t_codecvt_facet()'
obj\Debug\main.o: In function `convert':
D:/Documents/Coding/Libs/boost/boost/filesystem/v3/path_traits.hpp:113: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem3::path_traits::convert(char const*, char const*, std::basic_string<wchar_t, std::char_traits<wchar_t>, std::allocator<wchar_t> >&, std::codecvt<wchar_t, char, int> const&)'
obj\Debug\main.o: In function `file_size':
D:/Documents/Coding/Libs/boost/boost/filesystem/v3/operations.hpp:366: undefined reference to `boost::filesystem3::detail::file_size(boost::filesystem3::path const&, boost::system::error_code*)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
Process terminated with status 1 (0 minutes, 0 seconds)
6 errors, 0 warnings

I'm running it on windows 7 with Code::Blocks version 10.5, G++ version 4.4.1, and boost version 1.47

Answer 1

A chunk of Boost.System lives in a library that is built seperately. It is not all header files. You have to build it and link to it.

See Linking Boost Library in Linux for one example (linux) and http://wiki.codeblocks.org/index.php?title=BoostWindowsQuickRef (CodeBlocks)

Hope this helps!