Boost w/ MinGW - linking problems

[LB]

Those of you who know me know I am constantly running into problems with linking to other libraries. Right now though I am at the end of my strings because after all the hours of research and testing I've done I still can't link boost.

I'm using MinGW 4.8.1 and Boost 1.54.0 on Windows 7. I've tried build boost both with and without the std=c++11 flag (the program I am trying to build uses the std=C++11 flag) but even with a simple test program that doesn't use C++11 I still can't link.

Here are the steps I take:

0. I install a fresh installation of MinGW 4.8.1 with the automatic installer using the latest packages option and test that it works.

1. I download Boost 1.54.0 and extract the archive to C:/Users/Nicholas/Code/ and rename the extracted folder to just be "boost"

2. In C:/MinGW/include/ I create a symbolic link to boost/boost so that #include <> can find the boost headers.

3. I run the command bootstrap mingw as instructed by this StackOverflow link: http://stackoverflow.com/a/13257930/1959975

4. I run the command b2 toolset=gcc cxxflags=-std=c++11 --build-type=complete target-os=windows as instructed by the above SO link and these two: http://stackoverflow.com/a/2895784/1959975 and http://stackoverflow.com/a/6659916/1959975

5. I verify that library files have been written to boost/stage/lib/ and then use this as my command line for compiling my test program:

c++ -std=c++11 src/*.cpp -LC:/Users/Nicholas/Code/boost/stage/lib/ -lboost_iostreams-mgw48-s-1_54 -o test.exe

I've tried every one of the available library files in the commandline, the files are:
- libboost_iostreams-mgw48-1_54.a
- libboost_iostreams-mgw48-d-1_54.a
- libboost_iostreams-mgw48-mt-1_54.a
- libboost_iostreams-mgw48-mt-d-1_54.a
- libboost_iostreams-mgw48-mt-s-1_54.a
- libboost_iostreams-mgw48-mt-sd-1_54.a
- libboost_iostreams-mgw48-s-1_54.a
- libboost_iostreams-mgw48-sd-1_54.a
There is also a .dll and a .dll.a for -mt-d-

No matter which I link to I always get this exact same set of linker errors:

C:\Users\Nicholas\AppData\Local\Temp\ccwBfgVQ.o:test.cpp:(.text$_ZN5boost9iostre
ams10gzip_errorC1Ei[__ZN5boost9iostreams10gzip_errorC1Ei]+0x6a): undefined refer
ence to `boost::iostreams::zlib::okay'
C:\Users\Nicholas\AppData\Local\Temp\ccwBfgVQ.o:test.cpp:(.text$_ZN5boost9iostre
ams6detail11gzip_headerC1Ev[__ZN5boost9iostreams6detail11gzip_headerC1Ev]+0x27):
 undefined reference to `boost::iostreams::detail::gzip_header::reset()'
c:/mingw/bin/../lib/gcc/mingw32/4.8.1/../../../../mingw32/bin/ld.exe: C:\Users\N
icholas\AppData\Local\Temp\ccwBfgVQ.o: bad reloc address 0x27 in section `.text$
_ZN5boost9iostreams6detail11gzip_headerC1Ev[__ZN5boost9iostreams6detail11gzip_he
aderC1Ev]'
collect2.exe: error: ld returned 1 exit status

This is the program I am trying to compile:

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <sstream>
#include <limits>

//#include "NamedBinaryTag.hpp"

#include <boost/iostreams/filtering_streambuf.hpp>
#include <boost/iostreams/filter/gzip.hpp>
#include <boost/iostreams/copy.hpp>

int main(int nargs, char const *const *args)
{
	if(nargs != 2) return 1;

	std::ifstream compressed (args[1], std::ios::in|std::ios::binary);
	if(!compressed) return 2;
	std::stringstream decompressed;
	boost::iostreams::filtering_istreambuf fis;
	fis.push(boost::iostreams::gzip_decompressor());
	fis.push(compressed);
	boost::iostreams::copy(fis, decompressed);
	decompressed.seekg(std::ios::beg);
//	auto nbt = NBT::Tag::read(decompressed);

	std::cin.ignore(std::numeric_limits<std::streamsize>::max(), '\n');
}

I've done a lot of searching and I can't find what I am doing wrong, nobody else seems to have these problems. Could someone help me?

[JLBorges]

The gzip Filters depend on the third-party zlib library, which is not included in the Boost distribution. Prebuilt zlib binaries are available on most UNIX and UNIX-like systems, and will be found automatically by the Boost build system. Windows users can obtain prebuilt binaries at the zlib homepage. Users can also configure the Boost Iostream library to build zlib from the source code, which is available at the zlib homepage. For details on configuring the build system to find your zlib installation, please see Installation.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_54_0/libs/iostreams/doc/classes/gzip.html

[Dy7SLyTq]

are you sure that bjam compiles the .a's correctly? the only issue i can think of is your not linking correctly or the libs werent compiled correctly

[LB]

@JLBorges I feel stupid, I didn't think the issue was with which library I was linking. I'll install zlib and try again, thanks!

[JLBorges]

Or just use the NUWEN MinGW build; it has pre-built boost, zlib, libbzip2 etc.
http://nuwen.net/mingw.html

[LB]

Wow thanks for that JLBorges! I wish I knew about this a lot sooner...