Re: Boost 1.28 Regex and VC6 link problem

From: Edward Diener (eddielee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-04 16:36:39

"Edward Diener" <eddielee_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:aijm1s$s8a$1_at_main.gmane.org...
> Using Boost 1.28 and regex I get linker errors regarding raw_storage. I
> believe someone has brought this up before but I didn't save the previous
> answer.
>
> error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: class
> boost::detail::allocator_adapter<char,class boost::detail::simple_alloc>
> __fastcall boost::re_detail::raw_storage<class
> boost::detail::allocator_adapter<char,class boost::detail::simple_alloc>
> >::allocator(void)const "
>
> error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: class
> boost::detail::allocator_adapter<char,class boost::detail::simple_alloc>
> __fastcall boost::re_detail::raw_storage<class
> boost::detail::allocator_adapter<char,class boost::detail::simple_alloc>
> >::allocator(void)const "
>
> error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: __thiscall
> boost::re_detail::raw_storage<class
> boost::detail::allocator_adapter<char,class boost::detail::simple_alloc>
> >::raw_storage<class boost::detail::allocator_adapter<char,class
> boost::detail::simple_alloc> >(class
> re_detail::detail::allocator_adapter<char,class
boost::detail::simple_alloc>
> const &)"
>
> error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: __thiscall
> boost::re_detail::raw_storage<class
> boost::detail::allocator_adapter<char,class boost::detail::simple_alloc>
> >::raw_storage<class boost::detail::allocator_adapter<char,class
> boost::detail::simple_alloc> >(class
> re_detail::detail::allocator_adapter<char,class
boost::detail::simple_alloc>
> const &)"
>
> error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void * __fastcall
> boost::re_detail::raw_storage<class
> boost::detail::allocator_adapter<char,class boost::detail::simple_alloc>
> >::insert(unsigned int,unsigned int)"
>
> error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void __fastcall
> boost::re_detail::raw_storage<class
> boost::detail::allocator_adapter<char,class boost::detail::simple_alloc>
> >::resize(unsigned int)"
>
> It seems to be related to these lines in instances.hpp
>
> template class re_detail::raw_storage< BOOST_DEFAULT_ALLOCATOR
> BOOST_REGEX_CHAR_T) >;
>
> template class BOOST_REGEX_DECL
> re_detail::raw_storage<BOOST_DEFAULT_ALLOCATOR(BOOST_REGEX_CHAR_T) >;
>
> Are these lines in error ? Should one or both of them be removed ? My
guess
> is that the line with BOOST_REGEX_DECL needs to be removed.

Removing the first of the two lines cited in instances.hpp, the line without
the BOOST_REGEX_DECL fixes the problem. Hopefully this will be fixed for the
next release.