Please refer to the regex installation docs: you can either define BOOST_REGEX_NO_LIB to suppress automatic selection of lib's, or build the "right" libs from the supplied makefile. I realise that it's a pain that jam doesn't do the right thing yet, but I haven't quite figured out how yet :-(
John Maddock
please do not take this the wrong way, but what is the point of using Jam if it doesn't accomplish such a seemingly basic task? .. :/ if i may suggest , you should update the regex docs to mention this fact as the errors i was getting were not immediately intuitive , i had to spend some significant time trying to figure out what my problem was .. at any rate thank you for the advice, after having used the macro you provided, i included the jam-created lib and things worked fine for me .. again, thank you for your assistance, and thank you for releasing boost::regex++ , as it is a great and extremely useful library --vat __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com