Installng FastCGI++

Question

I am installing fastcgi++ from http://www.nongnu.org/fastcgipp/

It required the boost libraries and I configure using the following

sudo ./configure --with-boost=/home/test/boost

But I get the below error. How do I fix? Its finding my boost. Hmmmm

checking for Boost's header version... 1_48
checking boost/bind.hpp usability... yes
checking boost/bind.hpp presence... yes
checking for boost/bind.hpp... yes
checking for the toolset name used by Boost for g++... gcc45 -gcc
checking boost/date_time/posix_time/posix_time.hpp usability... yes
checking boost/date_time/posix_time/posix_time.hpp presence... yes
checking for boost/date_time/posix_time/posix_time.hpp... yes
checking for the Boost date_time library... no
configure: error: cannot find the flags to link with Boost date_time

Answer 1

I ran the following command, but I got the same error

sudo apt-get install libboost-dev libboost-date-time-dev

There were a lot of packages missing in my boost installation. My configure error was solved when I executed

sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev

which installed all boost libraries. Be aware that it will install the most recent boost libraries in your repositories. In my case, it installed 1.46 version, while the current version in the boost website is 1.51.

Answer 2

What a pain, My boost binary that came with my distribution repository does not included following dependencies too.

#libboost-syste-dev
#libboost-date-time-dev
#libboost-iostreams-dev

If you having the same trouble , I think it's better to download whole the boost source and compile it manually, rather than installing a missing dependency and running again ./configure to find out what would miss next.

NOTE: as mentioned in an earlier

 #apt-get install libboost-all-dev

would make it work. But I didn't tested it yet.

Answer 3

There was a problem with the fastcgi++ configure script when using boost libraries > 1.49. Here's the bug ticket.

This has been fixed, so download fastcgi++ 2.1 or later. An alternative workaround is to use older versions of boost (as mentioned in the other answers).

Answer 4

run

sudo apt-get install libboost-date-time1.40-dev

probably you'll also need other like libboost-system, find then with

apt-cache search libboost