I just checked the compilation process and it works as expected, maybe you missed the right dependencies in your study: you have to extract the ZIP file and take care of linking the code to the boost libs, version boost_1_46_1. You also need to link to the GNU Scientific Library (gsl): http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/ compiler details: dallachiesa@ariadne:~/sourcecode/datagen$ g++ -v Using built-in specs. Target: x86_64-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.4/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-multiarch --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.4 --program-suffix=-4.4 --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i486 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5.1) dallachiesa@ariadne:~/sourcecode/datagen$ please forward this information to whom it may concern.