Re: [Boost-Users] Boost regex and MacOS X.

From: John Maddock (john_maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-06 05:47:27

> I've been trying to make MacOS X compile the example snippets from
> boost_1_28_0/libs/regex/example/snippets/ and I keep getting these messy
> link errors.  It looks like /usr/bin/c++ is having trouble linking to
> libboost_regex.a   here's an example:

I don't know what the issue is here - although I have been able to build and
test regex on sourceforge's Darwin server, so this is possible.  One thing I
seem to remember is that Darwin requires that ranlib is run against .a files
before you can link to them, I don't know if this is the issue here.  One
thing you might want to try is to try and build the regex regression test
program using the makefile supplied:

# build the lib:
cd /boost-root/libs/regex/build
make -fgcc.mak
# do we need this step?:
ranlib gcc/*.a
# build and run the test program:
cd ../test/regress
make -fgcc.mak

John Maddock
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