Use of deleted function error with Boost

http://choorucode.com/2013/12/27/use-of-deleted-function-error-with-boost/

Problem

I was compiling C++ code that uses the Boost library when the compiler threw out this mysterious error:

/usr/include/boost/thread/pthread/thread_data.hpp: In constructor ‘boost::detail::tss_data_node::tss_data_node(boost::shared_ptr, void*)’:
/usr/include/boost/thread/pthread/thread_data.hpp:36:41: error: use of deleted function ‘boost::shared_ptr::shared_ptr(const boost::shared_ptr&)’
                 func(func_),value(value_)

Solution

This type of error typically occurs when there is a feature mismatch between the C++ compiler and the library code. In this case, I was using the Boost library version 1.48.0, which is from Ubuntu 12.04. However, I was using a newer version of the g++ compiler since the code used C++11 features. The version that is in Ubuntu was 4.6, while I using a more recent version 4.8 compiler.

One solution is to go back and use an older version of the C++ compiler. The other solution is to upgrade the Boost library to a more recent version. I chose the second solution and upgraded Boost to version 1.54 and the code compiled without errors.