Re: [boost] A few questions about Phoenix, Boost.Bind, and FC++

From: Joel de Guzman (joel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-06 19:52:19

Daniel Walker wrote:

>>> What is the status of the Phoenix msvc port? The documentation seems
>>> to indicate that it's possible but not necessarily forthcoming.
>> MSVC port? Phoenix works on MSVC and always has, AFAIK.
> 
> Well, I just tried a little smoke test with msvc 9, and it appears to
> work. However, from the documentation at http://tinyurl.com/6pkmtu:
> 
> "On the other hand, although Phoenix is not yet ported to MSVC,
> Phoenix uses the same tried and true implementation techniques used by
> the Spirit framework. Since Spirit has been ported to MSVC by Bruce
> Florman (v1.1) and by Raghav Satish (v1.3), it is very likely that
> Phoenix will also be ported to MSVC."

:-) That refers to old MSVC 6.5 and 7.0. Phoenix was written before
MSVC 7.1. There was a failed attempt to port Phoenix to the old
MSVC compilers.

That part of the docs should be updated.

Regards,
-- 
Joel de Guzman
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