Re: [Boost-users] Re: Building Regex++ lib on Pocket PC usingEmbeddedVC++4.0

From: Pavol Droba (droba_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-11-13 09:03:43

It only supports the development of .Net based apps.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 08:13:09AM -0500, Jeff Flinn wrote:
> I thought I read that VS7.1 will target windows ce platforms?
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> Jeff Flinn
> Applied Dynamics, International
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> "Ben Hutchings" <ben.hutchings_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:A7F746377BDB7D4EA8E6623AF92F43C80C7CCE_at_copper.bwsint.com...
> > Reuti_at_[hidden] <Reuti_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > > Has anyone tried building regex++ lib for PPC using EVC++?
> > > I can build it using VC++6.0 using the .mak files supplied
> > > with it.But I am getting errors and warnings.
> > > Error is regarding the use of typename keyword in lib source
> > > and warning is about C++ Exceptions unwinding capability.
> > >
> > > I replaced C++ try, catch by Win32 __try , __except
> >
> > That isn't going to help you.  While the Win32 exceptions will be
> > caught and thrown there will be no unwinding of the stack, i.e.
> > destructors for automatic variables will *not* be called.  So the code
> > will not work correctly in case of an exception.
> >
> > The approach I've seen is to call abort() instead of throwing, which
> > is probably not a very good one.
> >
> > > but don't know what to do with template error?
> > >
> > > Can anybody help in this?
> > > Also can it be confirmed that its possible to port it on Win CE?
> >
> > Not with EVC++.  I'm afraid it's something of a waste of time to try
> > to compile standard C++ code with it.
> >
> > There has been some work to port GNU C++ to WinCE but it is
> > incomplete and so far as I know only covers SH3 and MIPS whereas
> > the most popular architecture for WinCE now seems to be ARM.
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