Running HTTP server example from Boost Asio - c++

Question

I'm getting errors when trying to run the HTTP server example that comes with the source of the boost library, under the path: boost_1_59_0/libs/asio/example/cpp11/http/server/.
I already ran this following commands in the boost_1_59_0 directory:
$ ./bootstrap.sh
$ sudo ./bjam install
$ sudo ./b2 install
After installing all targets, i tried to compile the main.cpp and the server.cpp with this command: g++ -std=c++0x -o main main.cpp -I "/home/user/Desktop/boost_1_59_0" -L "/home/user/Desktop/boost_1_59_0/libs/" -lboost_system.
Any suggestion on how to compile this server example?
I linked all files from the boost_1_59_0/libs/asio/example/cpp11/http/server/ folder after the main.cpp, as #Richard Hodges suggested. It still didn't work, i got errors concerning lpthread, so i added it to the compiling options. The program compiled but it failed the execution, returning an error saying that it didn't find the library libboost_system.so.1.59.0. I tried linking the folders with -L /path/to/library but it didn't work.
Solution:
My compilation command:
g++ -std=gnu++0x -o main main.cpp server.cpp connection.cpp connection_manager.cpp reply.cpp mime_types.cpp request_handler.cpp request_parser.cpp -I "/home/user/Desktop/boost_1_59_0" -lboost_system -lpthread
I solved it with this commands:
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/lib/"
$ sudo ldconfig
And then I just ran the executable and it worked!

Answer 1

Here's a simple makefile I just concocted that works:
all:server
CPPFLAGS+=-std=c++11 -Wall -pedantic
CPPFLAGS+=-g -O2
CPPFLAGS+=-pthread
LDFLAGS+=-lboost_system
%.o:%.cpp
$(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) $^ -c -o $#
server:$(patsubst %.cpp,%.o,$(wildcard *.cpp))
$(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) $^ -o $# $(LDFLAGS)
It runs make:
g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -pedantic -g -O2 -pthread connection.cpp -c -o connection.o
g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -pedantic -g -O2 -pthread connection_manager.cpp -c -o connection_manager.o
g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -pedantic -g -O2 -pthread main.cpp -c -o main.o
g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -pedantic -g -O2 -pthread mime_types.cpp -c -o mime_types.o
g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -pedantic -g -O2 -pthread reply.cpp -c -o reply.o
g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -pedantic -g -O2 -pthread request_handler.cpp -c -o request_handler.o
g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -pedantic -g -O2 -pthread request_parser.cpp -c -o request_parser.o
g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -pedantic -g -O2 -pthread server.cpp -c -o server.o
g++ -std=c++11 -Wall -pedantic -g -O2 -pthread connection.o connection_manager.o main.o mime_types.o reply.o request_handler.o request_parser.o server.o -o server -lboost_system
And the test program runs:
$ ./server 0.0.0.0 9889 . &
$ GET http://localhost:9889/main.cpp > main.cpp.0
Check the files
$ md5sum main.cpp*
be5dc1c26b5942101a7895de6baedcee main.cpp
be5dc1c26b5942101a7895de6baedcee main.cpp.0
Don't forget to kill the server when you're done