On 22 May 2011 13:14, eric lin <ericlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > dear Jeff or gnu g++ programers: > I tried your suggestion(maybe I am not figure your words correctly, then why not > using command rather than English) > ------- > eric@eric-laptop:~/cppcookbook$ g++ -I/home/eric/boost1/boost_1_46_1/ example12-1.cpp -Lboost_thread-mt No, you didn't understand. -L is used to name a directory where libraries live, like -I is used to name a directory where headers live. Have you build the boost libraries yet? If you haven't then you need to do that first. Then do g++ -I/home/eric/boost1/boost_1_46_1/ example12-1.cpp -L/path/to/boost/libraries -lboost_thread-mt
