building boost.regex
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Hi
I've devcpp and mingw installed. How can I build boost.regex?
I found instructions here:
http://www.boost.org/libs/regex/doc/install.html#gcc
It says I need to change to /libs/regex/build in command prompt, but when i put "make -fgcc.mak" I get the error:
"'make' is not recognized as an
operable program or batch file."
How can I get this to work?
Cheers
MinGW was stupid (okay, they had reasons, but I still think it was a bad decision) and renamed make to mingw32-make.
Personally, I just create a copy of mingw32-make.exe and name it make.exe - instantly deals with this kind of problem.
That said, you should (need to?) use bjam - follow xEricx's link.
Note: the name of the bjam prebuilt exe for windows is tagged "...-ntx86.zip", this threw me off when I first installed boost :-).
Personally, I just create a copy of mingw32-make.exe and name it make.exe - instantly deals with this kind of problem.
That said, you should (need to?) use bjam - follow xEricx's link.
Note: the name of the bjam prebuilt exe for windows is tagged "...-ntx86.zip", this threw me off when I first installed boost :-).
I built my copy of boost with bjam. It worked perfect, without error and it was done in an instant. Download the whole boost package and build/install it with bjam.
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Toolmaker
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