Re: [Boost-users] [regex] link problem with MSVC

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [regex] link problem with MSVC
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-02-22 04:14:41

>> I've never seen those before, the missing symbols are std lib ones not
>> Boost.Regex ones BTW. I would guess there's something unusual about how
>> the library was built or how your app is being built. The quick solution
>> would be to define BOOST_REGEX_NO_LIB and add all the
>> libs/regex/src/*.cpp files directly to your project. Otherwise check
>> that regex really was built with VC9 and not some other compiler by
>> mistake, and check to see what defines and/or "odd" compiler options you
>> may be using in your project.
>
> Yes they are std errors but only pop up if I use the regex library 
> (specifically, using regex_search is the offender).
> To the best of my knowledge I am not using any odd options either for my 
> project or when I had compiled the boost library.
> The project is a fairly plain-vanilla console application with most 
> options left to the default, only rather unsuspicious include directives 
> and some optimization flags set, but the linker error also comes in debug 
> mode. I am also using the boost threads library and others without any 
> problems.
>
> Boost libraries were built with sort of the default
> bjam toolset=msvc-9.0 --build-type=complete --build-dir=BuildDir stage, so 
> nothing odd there as well.

Well there's clearly something odd going on because no one else has that 
issue ;-)

Have you tried the usual last ditch resort and rebuilt the libraries? 
Otherwise just add the source files directly to your project (or create a 
regex .lib project in your IDE) and build that way.

HTH, John.