Re: Building Boost with MSVC 6

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-25 21:25:05

Jeff Holle <jeff.holle_at_[hidden]> writes:

> I too failed to build the BGL Graphviz I/O library via the supplied v1 
> Jamfile with boost_1_29_0 and boost_1_30_0.
> I suspect that this problem is because the task is too difficult for 
> bjam v1 (lex/yacc issues), and expect this will be fixed with v2.

Boost.Build v1 supports lex and yacc, or at least it used to (code
rots, and all).

> On linux, the solution is to use the provided Makefile in the graph src 
> directory.   The only problem this Makefile had was not cleaning up the 
> file graphviz_parser.h properly (with boost_1_29_0).  It gets generated 
> by lex.
>
> On Windows, I don't exactly know how one gets lex/yacc and gcc
> tools. 

http://www.cygwin.com
 

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Dave Abrahams
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