Why does Eclipse hang when indexing Boost and cpp-netlib headers?

Question

I've got both the Boost and cpp-netlib libraries installed on my Win7 machine. In Eclipse, under my C++ project settings, I add the following include directories

C:\boost_1_53_0
C:\cpp-netlib-0.10.1

I then include the following header

#include <boost/network/protocol/http/client.hpp>

When I go to build my project, the C++ indexer takes an hour and then finally crashes when it runs out of memory. However, indexing the boost header files normally takes less than a minute, and the netlib header files are trivial by comparison.

It's worth noting that both the cpp-netlib and boost directories have subdirectories named "boost", where the header files live, E.G.:

C:\boost_1_53_0\boost\[headers go here]
C:\cpp-netlib-0.10.1\boost\[headers go here]

Why does Eclipse die? Is it confused by the two "boost" sub-directories?

Answer 1

Looks like you you have some sort of recursion in your headers. I would try 2 things.

1. Delete all your current boost/netlib. Fetch latest and unpack.
2. Copy hpp from netlib to boost and include only boost.

As for me its working with 2 folders. Its glitches of Windows compilation. On linux this always work like charm.