Re: Newbie boost installation & gcc on win32

From: mister_cpp_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-11-27 14:50:43

I really appreciate your prompt reply on this issue. I spent about 
eight hours trying to get it to work and you set me straight with 
just "-lboost_regex"! It worked fine after that. Being a C++ newbie I 
don't have a full grasp of compiler and library issues. I did install 
it for MS Visual C++ with no problems thanks to the great install 
app. 

I hope you realize how valueable this library is. I'm pretty 
comfortable with Perl and I have to say I use "split" and regular 
expression pattern matching everywhere. When I delved into C++ I had 
to take a few steps back without these tools. I'm really not at the 
point where I could write my own. I've just scratched the first 
grains of sand off of your regex++ library, but I really like what I 
see so far. 

Incidentally I heard about regex++ in Dr. Dobbs Journal.

Thanks so much for your efforts.
...Kevin

> gcc doesn't support "automatic linking" in the way that VC6 does, 
you need
> to add any needed libraries to the command line - in this 
case "g++ -o
> myfile myfile.cpp  -lboost_regex" should do the job.
> 
> - John Maddock
> http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/john_maddock/