David Abrahams wrote:

on Tue Jun 05 2007, dx wrote:

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Hello,

I'm having a hard time compiling boost on AIX using xlC.

Things will be better shortly, for 1.34.1:

http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/583

Dave, thanks for the information. Does this mean that in the past, compiling using xlC was very difficult, and needed many hacks to the makefiles and other files? When 1.34.1 is released, will this result in xlC being added to the list of supported toolsets? (listed in 5.2.2 Identify Your Toolset, section of the Boost Getting Started on Unix Variants doc) Thanks. Don

John Maddock wrote:

That indicates a problem with Boost.MPL and that compiler. Are you using an up to date version of xlc because I believe Boost.Regex does/should build fine with that compiler.

John, 1) xlC -qversion returns the following: IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V7.0 Version: 07.00.0000.0005 2) As mentioned previously, I have done nothing special to the makefile for regex, other than pointing to xlC for the compiler. (and xlC/ as the target output dir) It is possible I need to make major modifications to the makefile to get this to work. I am not an expert user of xlC, and just recently attempted to use it with Boost. 3) If someone has actually gone through the process, and can provide me the information , of modifying the generic makefiles to use with xlC on AIX, and building Boost.regex successfully, then that is what I'm really looking for. I still haven't heard that anyone has actually compiled Boost.Regex with xlC on AIX. Thanks, Don

John Maddock wrote:

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I still haven't heard that anyone has actually compiled Boost.Regex with xlC on AIX.

I know that the IBM compiler team regularly build/test boost with their compiler releases, so this all should just plain work. That's what made me wonder if you were using an older compiler version: the error message you were seeing is due to the compiler choking on Boost.MPL, which Regex depends on. Are there any std comformity compiler flags you can turn on?

John.

John, This is probably the best hint. After reading your email I visited the IBM XL C/C++ compiler site, searched for boost, and there is information related to modifications to Boost for Xlc (v8), etc. When I have figured this out I'll post what I learnt back to the message board. Thanks, Don

I can now compile regex (Boost v1.33) using xlC v8.0, without any modifications to any Boost src code, except for the generic.mak found within the regex build area. ------- here are the details -------- I am now able to compile regex (Boost v1.33) using the following version of xlC: (version info returned by the command xlC_r -qversion) IBM XL C/C++ Enterprise Edition V8.0 for AIX Version: 8.00.0000.0012 (As mentioned previously I had been using V7.0 and I could not get it to work.) I compiled it within the directory: $BOOST_ROOT/libs/regex/build I modified generic.mak as needed, using xlC_r as the compiler, and ran gmake. **I did not need to make any modifications to any of the Boost source code, as this process was defined on the IBM website for use with Boost V1.32 and I was compiling Boost V1.33** Note that I have not yet tried to compile any other parts of Boost with xlC V8.0. Thanks for all of your input. John Maddock wrote:

dx wrote:

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The incomplete class "gcc_3_2_wknd" must not be used as a qualifier.

A non-type template parameter cannot have type "const bool"

That indicates a problem with Boost.MPL and that compiler. Are you using an up to date version of xlc because I believe Boost.Regex does/should build fine with that compiler.

John.