boost::filesystem::exists(".") fails on Mac OS Sierra

[anonymous]

I installed Boost 1.65.1 on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.6 using mac port. When I run the program tut1.cpp from the Boost Filesystem tutorial, the program fails to find files and directories that exist. The following simple test code returns 1 on linux and 0 on Mac OS:

#include <iostream> #include <boost/filesystem.hpp>

int main() {

This line should print 1 but it prints 0 on Mac OS std::cout << boost::filesystem::exists(".") << std::endl;

return 0;

}

[anonymous]

EDIT:

The apparent problem was solved by compiling the sample code with clang++ instead of g++.