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

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-29 07:09:34

> 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.

You need to define BOOST_REGEX_NO_LIB to suppress auto-linking - it's in the
docs BTW :-)

John