Robert Lockwood wrote: This is my first post, I hope I'm doing it correctly. I just downloaded Boost and want to install regex with Builder 2007. (I have older versions of Builder installed on my machine, too) The instructions are for Builder 6 - will they work for 2007? Perhaps with a little editing?
The following text may help you (as it did with me). Note that this will install the all the boost libraries not just regex. It is a post I found at borland.public.cppbuilder.language.cpp web pages. Vaclav
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To help non-experts or semi-experts like myself to install boost, I wrote up the procedure which I just performed an hour ago to install the latest boost version on my system. I use CB2007, but the bcbboost patches support BDS2006 and BCB6, so this procedure should work for those systems as well. See http://bcbboost.sourceforge.net for test results. -Eliot Boost 1.34.0 on CodeGear CB2007 [[ or BDS2006, BCB6 ]] [[ I used CB2007, YMMV for earlier versions. ]] 1. Obtain following files from sourceforge.net: From http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost, boost_1_34_0.zip (or .tar.gz or .tar.bz2) boost-jam-3.1.14-1-ntx86.zip From http://sourceforge.net/projects/bcbboost/ bcbboost-1_34_0-5_9_0-0.1.zip 2. Unpack boost_1_34_0 to a suitable directory, say \src\boost. This results in a subdirectory \src\boost\boost_1_34_0. 3. Unpack bjam.exe from boost-jam-3.1.14-1-ntx86 directory of boost-jam-3.1.14-1-ntx86.zip to \src\boost. This results in bjam.exe in \src\boost. 4. Copy contents of the bcbboost\boost directory in bcbboost-1_34_0-5_9_0-0.1.zip to \src\boost\boost_1_34_0. This will copy into directories of the same name as those in the boost source tree (select yes to all in the copy). Note: for header-only installation which covers most common usage of boost, skip to step 7. If you're not sure, see http://boost.org/more/getting_started/windows.html#header-only-libraries if you need to build the libraries for your applications. 5. Edit /Src/Boost/boost_1_34_0/tools/build/v2/user-config.jam by uncommenting appropriate line. Specifically for CB2007, remove the leading # from the line starting "#using borland : 5.9.0". [[ For BDS2006, uncomment line for 5.8.2 ]] [[ For BCB6, uncomment line for 5.6.4 ]] 6. In a command prompt window, invoke bjam in /src/boost/boost_1_34_0 directory: cd \src\boost\boost_1_34_0 ..\bjam --toolset=borland stage There are lots of warnings and errors. There is nothing to do except ignore them. The libraries that can be built will be built. 7. Copy or move the boost include tree, \src\boost\boost_1_34_0\boost, to your preferred location. I prefer to put it into the program include directory, i.e., C:\Program Files\CodeGear\RAD Studio\5.0\include This should result in the directory C:\Program Files\CodeGear\RAD Studio\5.0\include\boost containing the boost include files, e.g., format.hpp. In code, you may then write, #include <boost/format.hpp> using boost::format; or you can modify your application include paths to suit your taste. [[ For earlier versions, use appropriate directories, i.e. BDS2006: \Program Files\Borland\BDS\4.0\include BCB6: \Program Files\Borland\CBuilder6\include ]] 8. If you built the libraries, move the library files in \src\boost\boost_1_34_0\boost\stage\lib to your preferred location. For me, I used C:\Program Files\CodeGear\RAD Studio\5.0\lib\boost [[ Again, for other versions, use appropriate directories. ]] 9. To clean up after building libraries, remove directory \src\boost\boost_1_34_0\bin.v2.