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I'm trying my hand at C++, I've got Eclipse on my Arch machine. I'm trying to get an example at Boost.Org working:

#include <iostream>
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
#include <boost/date_time/posix_time/posix_time.hpp>

int main()
{
  boost::asio::io_context io;

  boost::asio::deadline_timer t(io, boost::posix_time::seconds(5));
  t.wait();

  std::cout << "Hello, world!" << std::endl;

  return 0;
}

I've downloaded the library tar and extracted it to /usr/local/include as this appeared the most obvious from the default include folders, but I still got the following error: Unresolved inclusion: <boost/asio.hpp>

Any suggestions?

UPDATE: Just needed to give Eclipse time to acknowledge the library being moved to /usr/local/include (a default include folder).

Solution

  • You should just run 

    pacman -S boost

    this will install boost in the system include path that GCC always uses.