Re: [Boost-users] Starting with boost

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Starting with boost
From: Pekka Seppänen (pekka.seppanen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-07-18 10:26:58

On 18.7.2012 14:12, Ronny Herzog wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I want to start using boost and tried the steps provided in
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/more/getting_started/windows.html.
> <http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#auto-linking>
> My system is Windows 7 with MS VC 2008 and I would like to use boost from the
> command line. I run bootstrap.bat and bjam.exe to build all libraries.
> However, when I want to compile the example file
> (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_43_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#link-your-program-to-a-boost-library)
> which uses the 'regex' library it does not find it.
> 

Hi,

are you sure that you're using the correct library path? If you followed the
instructions properly (or used defaults), the compiled libs are placed under
stage\lib, not under libs\ (that's where the source files are).

-- Pekka