Hi, thanks very much for responding. I have followed your instructions but so far can't get it to work. running bjam as below gives a message: msvc:9.0:C:/microsoft..../bin/cl.exe.jam: Invalid argument and : rule msvc:9.0:c:/micro..../cl.exe.init unknown in module toolset then appears to drop through with a number of in (various modules) messages. Would greatly appreciate your help. Thanks Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Maddock" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 6:59 PM Subject: Re: [Boost-users] cannot build the regex example in visual c++ 2008

chris briscoe wrote:

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Hello- absolute beginner here. I have the latest (November version) of visual studio c++ 2008 express.

The header only version compiled fine. However the regex example fails with many unresolved external symbols.

Do I need to build the libraries for this compiler? Or am I making some other booboo.

Yes you need to build the libraries for this compiler: see http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started/windows.html

There aren't any pre-built binaries for VC2008 yet, but you should be able to build from source OK. Also note that since VC2008 wasn't available when Boost-1.34 was released, you will need to modify your user-config.jam to tell bjam where to look for it, basically:

copy boost-root/tools/build/v2/user-config.jam to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH% or %HOME% (echo these from the command prompt to check where these locations are),

and then add the line:

using msvc : 9.0 : "c:/program files/microsoft visual studio 9.0/vc/bin/cl.exe" ;

adjusting the path as necessary, then you should be able to build from Boost's root directory with:

bjam --with-regex stage msvc-9.0

Afterwards make sure the binaries are in your project's library-search-path and hopefully everything should just work :-)

HTH, John.

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Hi, whitespace was an issue - thanks. using this command: bjam --with-regex stage msvc-9.0 didn't work, produced a lot of output then appeared to skip everything for lack of stage\lib. I tried this from the boost root C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_34_1> bjam ^ More? --build-dir=C:\temp\build-boost ^ More? --toolset=msvc-9.0 stage this ground away for an age producing reams of output and finished with the result attached. Still don't seem to be there. Thanks Chris ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Maddock" To: Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 7:24 PM Subject: Re: [Boost-users] cannot build the regex example in visual c++ 2008

chris briscoe wrote:

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Hi, thanks very much for responding. I have followed your instructions but so far can't get it to work.

running bjam as below gives a message: msvc:9.0:C:/microsoft..../bin/cl.exe.jam: Invalid argument and : rule msvc:9.0:c:/micro..../cl.exe.init unknown in module toolset then appears to drop through with a number of in (various modules) messages.

Would greatly appreciate your help.

Please post the complete error messages, plus your user-config.jam changes, otherwise it's hard to say. However... at a guess it appears that there isn't any whitespace between the arguments in your user-config.jam. Unfortunately bjam insists on whitespace around separators like ":" so:

using msvc :9.0:path-to-cl;

will *not* work, but:

using msvc : 9.0 : path-to-cl ;

will.

HTH, John.

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