Re: [Boost-Users] Regex issue on WIN32

From: John Maddock (john_maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-09 06:38:09

> I'm trying to get the regex lib (boost 1.28.0) built on win32 (MSVC v6,
> stlport 4.5.3).  The standard build that is provided with regex appears to
> work fine and I get the full compliment of regex libraries (debug,
> static/dynamic, etc.).  However, when I attempt to build the
> credit_card_example file, the link fails with unresolved external symbols.
> I then added the 13 regex source files to a msdev project along with the
> credit_card_example source file and linked everything statically (using
> BOOST_REGEX_STATIC_LINK or whatever it is).  That worked fine.  So this
> leads me to believe that something is going on with BOOST_REGEX_DECL
macro.
> I put some #pragma message(...) statements into some headers and
determined
> that the macro is being defined correctly.  Is it possible that this macro
> is missing on some functions/classes or is it more likely a build option
or
> macro issue?

It all links OK for me, I've tried the following combinations:
debug-mt
debug-mt-dll
stldebug-mt
stldebug-mt-dll
release-mt
release-mt-dll

which I think covers all the bases.  What error messages are you getting?

John Maddock
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