[Boost-users] Regex linking woes.

23 Nov 2004


      Hello everyone;

	I have been wrestling with linking to boost::regex lib for some time now, and have looked
	everywhere to try and avoid posting a dumb question, but I still am getting no further.

	I am using MSVC 6 SP5, built boost with jam, with the following parameters:

	"-sTOOLS=msvc-stlport" "-sBUILD=debug <stlport-iostream>off <stlport-version>4.5.3 <runtime-link>dynamic"
	"-sSTLPORT_PATH={path}"

	Upon linking with the auto-link lib file, I MSVC complains as follows:

PSRecord.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "void __cdecl boost::re_detail::raise_regex_exception(class _STL::basic_string const &)" (?raise_regex_exception@re_detail@boost@@YAXABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@_STL@@@_STL@@@Z)

	[ other unresolved external messages snipped ]

	dumping libboost_regex-vc6-mt-gdpn-1_32.lib generated by jam, I find this:
	?raise_regex_exception@re_detail@boost@@YAXABV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@@Z

	which is the closest to what VC wants (I am attempting to link
	to an application using the Multithreaded Debug DLL runtime).

	any ideas what I am missing?

	cheers,

	jeff poirier
	Software Designer / Servers Group,
	VertigoXMedia

[Boost-users] Regex linking woes.

Jean Francois Poirier