Re: [Boost-users] Newbie Question: Boost Regex

From: admin_at_[hidden]
Date: 2006-03-21 10:21:20

Hi John, thanks for the feedback.  I think I resolved the issue.  I
originally built with bjam, but couldn't seem to get it working.  Then I
tried doing as you suggested - adding the sources directly to my project -
and it still didn't work.  I ended up wiping out the Boost dir on my
machine, re-downloaded, ran bjam again, and now everything seems to work
fine.  Apparently I screwed something up on the original build...  not
sure what, but thanks again for the help!

Mike C

>> Hi, I have a newbie question here.  I'm trying to use the Boost regex
>> in an application, but I keep getting strange errors.  How can I
>> compile the regex code into a DLL or LIB that I can link to from my
>> app -- I'm looking for the path of least resistance here.  The
>> version is 1.33.1, the platform is VC++ 7.1.  The most recent error
>> is the following:
>
> I don't really see how you can get that, some questions:
>
> 1) Did you build with bjam?
> 2) Are you letting the regex auto-linking code pick the right lib file for
> you?  If not why not?  This is a common cause of link time errors
> otherwise.
> 3) Are you defining any of the regex optional configuration defines in the
> lib build, but not in your application?  Or vice versa?  The lib and your
> app must be built with *exactly* the same build options.
>
> Finally: if you are doing something, umm, strange, and you can't track
> down
> the cause of the error, you can always just add the regex source directly
> to
> your application.  It's just a bunch of sources after all... one caveat
> though: your app will likely be larger than it needs to be if you do this,
> unless you prune the sources down to a minimal set.
>
> John.
>
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