Dijkstra Shortest Path with VertexList = ListS in boost graph

BGL actually has an example of using dijkstra_shortest_paths with listS/listS, but it’s not linked to from the HTML documentation: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/release/libs/graph/example/dijkstra-example-listS.cpp

What the error message is trying to tell you (error: no match for ‘operator=’ in ‘index.boost::adj_list_vertex_property_map...ValueType = boost::detail::error_property_not_found...) is that there is no per-vertex storage for the vertex_index_t property, which is what adj_list_vertex_property_map needs. To fix the problem you can either change your Graph typedef to include per-vertex storage for the vertex_index_t property or use an “external” property map such as associative_property_map.

The dijkstra-example-listS.cpp example uses the approach of changing the graph typedef. To use this approach in your code, you could define:

typedef boost::adjacency_list <boost::listS, boost::listS, boost::directedS,
  boost::property<boost::vertex_name_t, std::string, boost::property<boost::vertex_index_t, int> >,
  boost::property<boost::edge_weight_t, Weight> > Graph;

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