Bitcoin-qt Strange error on Debian Wheezy

[guaranito93]

When I try to open the qt client it shows this message on terminal:

./bitcoin-qt: symbol lookup error: ./bitcoin-qt: undefined symbol: _ZN5boost10filesystem4path7codecvtEv

I couldn't find any solution googling the message. How do I fix it?

[Newar]

Which platform? How did you build?

[Dare]

Did you build bitcoind/bitcoin-qt with libboost configured as a shared library (which I believe is the default setting, and makes it a dependency) and then uninstall libboost after the build was done? I'm not sure of anything else that could cause this type of error.

[Abdussamad]

When I try to open the qt client it shows this message on terminal:

./bitcoin-qt: symbol lookup error: ./bitcoin-qt: undefined symbol: _ZN5boost10filesystem4path7codecvtEv

I couldn't find any solution googling the message. How do I fix it?

The pre-compiled bitcoin-qt binary that is distributed on bitcoin.org doesn't work on server linux distros like wheezy and CentOS. You can get all the gory details here:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/3803

The .static executables in 0.9.1 such as bitcoind.static will work but not the gui version -qt. You will have to compile from source.