[opensource-dev] Linux boost shared libraries

[Henri Beauchamp]

On Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:25:37 -0800 (PST), Nicky Perian wrote:

> At the sldev meeting earlier it was stated that unicode processing with boost
> regex was problematic unless a shared boost lib was included. Here:
> http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/unicode.html
> it appears that the static lib compiled/linked with ICU is unicode aware.

Yes, it is if the boost library was built on a system with ICU installed. Here is
the relevant info for how to build boost::regex with Unicode support:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/libs/regex/doc/html/boost_regex/install.html#boost_regex.install.building_with_unicode_and_icu_support

Henri.