Failing to detect Boost::Filesystem (misleading error: Could not link against -lGLU !) (Raspberrian)

[KleinerKobold]

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configure: error: Could not link against -lGLU !

I am running under Raspberrian

the config log said:

configure:6202: g++ -o conftest -g -O2 -pthread -lGL conftest.cpp -lglu32 >&5
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lglu32
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:6202: $? = 1

[zbuckley]

I am having a similar problem on CentOS 7. libGLU.so exists in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH but configure still shows this error.

[davidjeddy]

Same issue on Raspbian as well.

[acaudwell]

I'm pretty sure this is it failing to detect Boost::Filesystem: https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource/blob/7e793c96cbfb8d742c690f4a9bec49880f985e60/m4/ax_boost_filesystem.m4#L110

There is a bug in the m4 script when it fails as it hasn't set ax_lib so it contains the previous value.

There are some configure options for boost e.g. --with-boost. It possibly needs some help finding the boost installation path.

As the C++ standard now implements filesystem support based on Boost::Filesystem I might remove it as a dependency. Doesn't look like Clang supports it yet though.

[KasimAhmic]

A little late to the party, but I've managed to compile it successfully by using the --with-boost-libdir flag during the configure step. For completeness sake, all the commands I ran to get it working are listed below. Note that this is on a fresh install of Raspbian so some of these may not be necessary for you.

To actually compile everything, these are all the commands I ran:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo apt-get install gcc cmake build-essential libsdl2-dev libsdl2-image-dev libpcre3-dev libfreetype6-dev libglew-dev libglm-dev libboost-all-dev libpng-dev autoconf
git clone https://github.com/acaudwell/Gource.git
cd Gource
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-boost-libdir=/usr/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf
make
sudo make install

To find the libdir location I used above, I used the following command:

sudo find / -name libboost_*

Worked like a charm!