Re: [Boost-users] Boost library names

From: Mark B. (anonymoususr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-12 17:01:14

Thank you so much. I was so concentrated in trying to find a library name
that I overlooked that sentence. Fortunately RegEx is easy to locate
(because is prefixed with "boost" unlike uBlas)

Mark

Rush Manbert wrote:
> 
> Mark B. wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am trying to use string_algo (specifically split) in my program but I
>> have
>> no idea about which Boost library I have to link to. Library naming in
>> Boost
>> is not very regular. For example, to link to the filesystem classes I
>> have
>> to use -lboost_filesystem, but for linking to uBlas, I have to use
>> -lblas.
>> Thus, the substring "boost" is not necessarily in the  library's filename
>> 
>> Can somebody help me?
>> 
>> Thanks!
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> The string_algo library is headers only, there's nothing to link 
> against. (Most of the libraries are header-only.)
> 
> It says so here:
> http://www.boost.org/doc/html/string_algo/env.html#id1709621
> 
> which isn't right at the top, sadly.
> 
> I can't speak to the naming conventions part of the question.
> 
> - Rush
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