Re: boost::regex (implementation question)

From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-11-23 16:42:52

On 23/11/2019 15:09, John Emmas via Boost-users wrote:
> On 23/11/2019 13:58, John Maddock via Boost-users wrote:
>>
>> On 23/11/2019 09:14, John Emmas via Boost-users wrote:
>>>
>>> But where are the implementations for those functions? 
>>
>> You would find them under libs/regex/src, but those old POSIX API's 
>> while technically still supported have been deprecated for a long time.
>>
>
> Many thanks John,
>
> I do remember building boost::regex from source (maybe back around the 
> time of boost v1.54) but the source files from back then won't compile 
> against the latest regex headers. 

I would think not!

> Also... I'm not seeing a 'src' subfolder here in v1.71 (for that 
> matter, I don't even see a 'boost/libs/' subfolder).  These are the 
> subfolders I currently see under 'boost/regex':-

Not under boost-root/boost, but under boost-root/libs/regex.