Re: [Boost-users] boost-regex: how to compile with mingw?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] boost-regex: how to compile with mingw?
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-16 12:07:03

>>> If I want a dll how would that work?
>>
>> bjam toolset=gcc --with-regex link=shared
>>
> That generates a dll for Visual Studio, but with toolset=gcc it still
> only generates a static .lib file and no dll.

With apologies for getting in late on this discussion: shared library builds 
with cygwin or mingw32 are deliberately disabled - in short they don't work 
with the regex lib :-(

See https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3430 for a long-ish discussion 
on this... it's getting closer to being supported... maybe !

HTH, John.