Re: [Boost-users] How do i only get Regex??

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] How do i only get Regex??
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-27 05:32:28

> I'm using VC++ 8 and I am trying to use the boost regex in order to use
> regular expressions. I can get it to work, but it requires 60mb of files!
> What is the simplest, smallest subset of files that I need to get this to
> work.  If there is a way to only have to import a dll or lib, that would 
> be
> ideal.  I would like it to be separate and standalone from the massive 
> file
> collection that comes with boost as a whole.

You can use bcp to extract a subset of Boost: 
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_38_0/tools/bcp/bcp.html

Of course your final executable will be the same size regardless of whether 
you extract out Boost.Regex or not :-)

HTH John.