[Boost-users] Linker problem using boost::regex with VC6.5

From: Sven Van Echelpoel (sven.vanechelpoel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-28 04:45:07

Hi,

I'm having a strange problem when I try to include boost::regex in my
project (VC6.5 on Win2K). I'm not using Build to build a separate regex
dll but rather include the source files directly in the project (or
rather in a small utility static library). I've defined
BOOST_REGEX_STATIC_LINK to avoid __declspec( dllimport ) / __declspec(
dllexport ).

Although everything compiles just fine the linker complains that it
cannot find the library boost_regex_vc6_mdsd.lib. Further investigation
revealed that it is actuallty listed somewhere as an additional default
library (the linker outputs this when you switch on link progress
messages). Searching through the sourcecode for #pragma comment( lib,
... ) and #pragma comment( linker, ... ) directives came up empty as did
a search for boost_regex_vc6_mdsd.lib in all sources and headers.

I got it to link by letting the linker ignore boost_regex_vc6_mdsd.lib.
Even so I still would like to know where this is comming from. Any
ideas?

Sven