mmap with Boost IOStreams: A minimalist’s example

The following C++ program uses boost::iostreams to memory-map a file, read it’s content into a std::string and print it to cout.

It provides a minimal example of how to use the boost::iostreams portable mmap functionality.

//Compile like this: g++ -o mmap mmap.cpp -lboost_iostreams
#include <boost/iostreams/device/mapped_file.hpp>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
using namespace std;
using namespace boost::iostreams;

int main(int argc, char** argv) {
   //Initialize the memory-mapped file
   mapped_file_source file(argv[1]);
   //Read the entire file into a string
   string fileContent(file.data(), file.size());
   //Print the string
   cout << fileContent;
   //Cleanup
   file.close();
}

Also see A simple mmap() readonly example