Problems with BOOST library c++

Question

I want to use the boost library in a c++ project I'm doing in emacs on linux, but I am having troubles getting it to work. I don't want to actually install it on my machine. I want to be able to use the regex part of boost. I want to be able to tar my source files and send them to another computer (that is likely not to have boost installed, nor will I be able to install it) and be able to compile my project. I have tried using the make file in the regex folder and made both a .a and .so, but I can't get it to compile when linking the library and setting the includes to the boost folder (I have tried multiple folders in the boost directory as well--many of them recommended by Google, but to no avail). I keep getting a "cannot find regex/config.hpp" error.

Is there anyway to include everything in one file like a .so or .a and get it to work this way? I am okay with including the regex folder itself as well, butt...

If I were to do it this way would I have to include the whole boost folder with my project anyway? That might be doable, but I don't want my tar file to be that big.

Answer 1

why not just listing boost as a dependencies and let user install it ? If not, use Boost bcp to extract regex and its dependencies to a standalone library.

Answer 2

At first you need to build regex library in boost. Without this library you can't use boost.regex.