Re: [Boost-users] How to get BGL compiled with VC2005?

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-18 21:22:27

On May 12, 2005, at 6:36 PM, sr kumar wrote:

> Hi,
> I am attempting to compile Boost with VC2005.
> All goes well, with the exception of the Boost Graph library.
> The compiler errors at the bottom of the email.

We've fixed this in Boost CVS, for the next release.

> flex and bison from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/
> The problems seem to be the unistd.h which is missing on Win32.
>
> I played around with setting YY_NO_UNISTD_H in the Jamfile and
> the header files themselves. However, I'm not an expert (and have
> obviously been unsuccessful!). Would appreciate any help in figuring
> how to work around the problem.

Just to be sure: do you need the GraphViz reader? That's the only part 
of the BGL that actually needs to be compiled into a library.

        Doug