id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 12759 filesystem::path::{separator,preferred_separator,dot} should have definitions Yegor Derevenets Beman Dawes "Static constexpr members of boost::filesystem::path should have definitions. Currently they do not, which leads to, e.g., the following code not compiling: {{{ $ cat main.cpp #include void f(const char &) { } int main() { f(boost::filesystem::path::preferred_separator); } $ g++ -std=c++14 -lboost_filesystem -lboost_system main.cpp /tmp/ccuhjyO3.o: In function `main': main.cpp:(.text+0x12): undefined reference to `boost::filesystem::path::preferred_separator' collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status }}}" Bugs closed To Be Determined filesystem Boost 1.63.0 Problem fixed