Boost Dll's

[Max Jonathan Spaulding]

Hi all,

I am having a problems running an application cross compiled on fedora with 
mingw that uses boost regex.  There appear to only be import libraries for 
boost installed and I can't find libboost_regex.dll after spending an hour or 
two googling.  Does anyone have this working?  Or can anyone point me in a 
direction here?

I have the following mingw packages installed
Installed Packages                                                   
mingw32-SDL.noarch                                          1.2.13-4.fc10
mingw32-atk.noarch                                          1.25.2-1.fc10
mingw32-binutils.i386                                       2.19-2.fc10
mingw32-boost.noarch                                        1.34.1-3.fc10
mingw32-bzip2.noarch                                        1.0.5-5.fc10
mingw32-cairo.noarch                                        1.8.0-6.fc10
mingw32-cpp.i386                                            4.3.2-12.fc10
mingw32-curl.noarch                                         7.18.2-2.fc10
mingw32-expat.noarch                                        2.0.1-1.fc10
mingw32-filesystem.noarch                                   43-6.fc11
mingw32-fontconfig.noarch                                   2.6.0-6.fc10
mingw32-freetype.noarch                                     2.3.8-1.fc10
mingw32-gcc.i386                                            4.3.2-12.fc10
mingw32-gcc-c++.i386                                        4.3.2-12.fc10
mingw32-gcc-debuginfo.i386                                  4.3.2-12.fc10
mingw32-gdbm.noarch                                         1.8.0-1.fc10
mingw32-gettext.noarch                                      0.17-7.fc10
mingw32-glib2.noarch                                        2.19.5-2.fc10
mingw32-gnutls.noarch                                       2.4.2-4.fc10
mingw32-gtk2.noarch                                         2.15.0-1.fc10
mingw32-iconv.noarch                                        1.12-7.fc10
mingw32-jasper.noarch                                       1.900.1-6.fc10
mingw32-libgcrypt.noarch                                    1.4.3-3.fc10
mingw32-libglade2.noarch                                    2.6.3-3.fc10
mingw32-libgpg-error.noarch                                 1.6-9.fc10
mingw32-libgsf.noarch                                       1.14.11-1.fc10
mingw32-libidn.noarch                                       1.9-1.fc10
mingw32-libjpeg.noarch                                      6b-8.fc10
mingw32-libpng.noarch                                       1.2.34-2.fc10
mingw32-libsigc++20.noarch                                  2.2.2-3.fc10
mingw32-libssh2.noarch                                      0.18-2.fc10
mingw32-libvirt.noarch                                      0.5.1-1.fc10
mingw32-libxml2.noarch                                      2.7.2-6.fc10
mingw32-libxslt.noarch                                      1.1.24-3.fc10
mingw32-nsis.i386                                           2.39-5.fc10
mingw32-nsis-debuginfo.i386                                 2.39-5.fc10
mingw32-nsiswrapper.noarch                                  3-2.fc10
mingw32-openssl.noarch                                      0.9.8g-1.fc10
mingw32-pango.noarch                                        1.22.1-3.fc10
mingw32-pdcurses.noarch                                     3.4-3.fc10
mingw32-pixman.noarch                                       0.13.2-2.fc10
mingw32-portablexdr.noarch                                  4.0.11-2.fc10
mingw32-pthreads.noarch                                     2.8.0-4.fc10
mingw32-readline.noarch                                     5.2-4.fc10
mingw32-runtime.noarch                                      3.15.1-10.fc10
mingw32-sqlite.noarch                                       3.6.6.2-1.fc10
mingw32-termcap.noarch                                      1.3.1-5.fc10
mingw32-w32api.noarch                                       3.12-8.fc10
mingw32-zlib.noarch                                         1.2.3-11.fc10

Thanks,

-Max

[Erik van Pienbroek]

Op woensdag 28-01-2009 om 18:39 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Max
Jonathan Spaulding:
> Hi all,
>
> I am having a problems running an application cross compiled on fedora with 
> mingw that uses boost regex.  There appear to only be import libraries for 
> boost installed and I can't find libboost_regex.dll after spending an hour or 
> two googling.  Does anyone have this working?  Or can anyone point me in a 
> direction here?

Hi,

According to
http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-misc.cgi/fedora-mingw--devel/file/8bd4182... this file should be in /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/

Regards,

Erik van Pienbroek

[Max Jonathan Spaulding]

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 23:26:59 Erik van Pienbroek wrote:
> Op woensdag 28-01-2009 om 18:39 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Max
>
> Jonathan Spaulding:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am having a problems running an application cross compiled on fedora
> > with mingw that uses boost regex.  There appear to only be import
> > libraries for boost installed and I can't find libboost_regex.dll after
> > spending an hour or two googling.  Does anyone have this working?  Or can
> > anyone point me in a direction here?
>
> Hi,
>
> According to
> http://hg.et.redhat.com/cgi-bin/hg-misc.cgi/fedora-mingw--devel/file/8bd418
> 2dafe0/boost/mingw32-boost.spec#l1 this file should be in
> /usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/bin/
>
> Regards,
>
> Erik van Pienbroek

Hi,

Thanks, that is indeed where it is.  Helped alot.

-Max

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 06:39:12PM -0700, Max Jonathan Spaulding wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am having a problems running an application cross compiled on fedora with 
> mingw that uses boost regex.  There appear to only be import libraries for 
> boost installed and I can't find libboost_regex.dll after spending an hour or 
> two googling.  Does anyone have this working?  Or can anyone point me in a 
> direction here?

As Erik said, DLLs are installed in %{_mingw32_bindir}[1] (because
Windows likes to find its DLLs on the current PATH).

But for linking, this should work:

i686-pc-mingw32-g++ foo.cpp -lboost_regex

In the current implementation this will statically link against the
implib (in .../lib/libboost_regex.dll.a) and the implib contains the
machinery to dynamically link with the DLL at runtime.

Rich.

[1] You can get the value of RPM macros by doing:

rpm --showrc | less