Monday, February 23, 2015

Time Lapse from King's Mountain and Table Mountain tops

I had the chance to capture time lapse photos during two recent hikes. Here are the outcomes: King's Mountain: Here the camera is positioned westward towards the Pacific Ocean

Table Mountain: Overlooking the Columbia Gorge in a very cloudy morning. Once we got back to the trailhead, the clouds were completely gone.
 

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Boost Library Compilation Error (using CMake): undefined reference to `boost::iostreams::detail::

While using CMake to compile a simple c++ code containing boost library utilization, I encountered the following linkage problem:

main.cpp:(.text._ZN5boost9iostreams6detail9close_allINS0_21basic_gzip_compressorISaIcEEENS1_16linked_streambufIcSt11char_traitsIcEEEEEvRT_RT0_[void boost::iostreams::detail::close_all >, boost::iostreams::detail::linked_streambuf > >(boost::iostreams::basic_gzip_compressor >&, boost::iostreams::detail::linked_streambuf >&)]+0x18e): undefined reference to `boost::iostreams::detail::zlib_base::reset(bool, bool)'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [test.exe] Error 1
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/test.exe.dir/all] Error 2

make: *** [all] Error 2

For reference, the code I was trying to compile was the following ( a simple zipping and reading from a zipped file).:

#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <boost/iostreams/device/file.hpp>
#include <boost/iostreams/filtering_streambuf.hpp>
#include <boost/iostreams/filtering_stream.hpp>
#include <boost/iostreams/copy.hpp>
#include <boost/iostreams/filter/gzip.hpp>
using namespace std;
using namespace boost::iostreams;

int main()
{
   //The following code decompresses data from a file and writes it to standard output.
   ifstream file("hello.txt.gz", ios_base::in | ios_base::binary);
   filtering_streambuf<input> in;
   in.push(gzip_decompressor());
   in.push(file);
   boost::iostreams::copy(in, cout);

   boost::iostreams::filtering_ostream geometry;
   geometry.push(boost::iostreams::gzip_compressor(boost::iostreams::gzip::best_compression));

   // Generating a Zip file
   string filename = "example1.txt.gz";
   filtering_ostream out;
   unsigned int compressionLevel = boost::iostreams::gzip::best_compression;
   out.push(gzip_compressor(compressionLevel));

   out.push(file_sink(filename.c_str(), std::ios::binary));
   out << "This is a gz file\n";
   out << "This is the second line\n";
}


How I solved this problem is as follows: 
1)  I already had the following setting in the CMakeList.txt file:
SET(BOOST_DIR /usr/intel/pkgs/boost/1.54.0-gcc-4.7.2 CACHE PATH "Boost directory")

2)  Then, I added the bold and red lines below to have it compile without linkage error (the black lines already existed)
SET(BOOST_LIBDIR ${BOOST_DIR}/lib64)
SET(BOOST_LIB -L${BOOST_LIBDIR} boost_thread.a pthread.a  )
SET(BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR ${BOOST_DIR}/include )
LINK_DIRECTORIES(${BOOST_LIBDIR})
INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES(${BOOST_INCLUDE_DIR}  )
find_package(Boost COMPONENTS system filesystem iostreams regex  REQUIRED)
set (EXE test.exe)
add_executable(${EXE} main.cpp )
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(${EXE} ${Boost_LIBRARIES} )


This made the trick and it worked without problems