RE: [Boost-Users] Problems Using boost:date_time library

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-27 09:28:56

> The first problem I ran into was that I got a linker error because the class
> greg_month (in greg_month.hpp) did not provide definitions for the following
> member functions:
> 
>     const char* as_short_string() const;
>     const char* as_long_string()  const;
> 
> I quicky wrote some inline switch statements to get past that hurdle, but

This isn't the way to handle this.  You will need to build and link the
library (libboost_date_time).  If you cd to libs/date_time/build and
run bjam that will take care of it.

> then the compiler started complaining when I tried to use std::advance.  It
> is unfortunate that I do not have the exact error in front of me right now,
> but I did trace the problem to the definition of month_iterator.  I found
> that if I derived its base implementation class from the class template
> iterator that it would compile without problems.  Is this a problem with the
> STL that ships with MSVC6?

Unclear without the detail.  The regression tests for MSVC6 do pass, so there
is hope.
 

Jeff