Re: [Boost-users] Linker error when using Boot regex on AIX

Thanks for the response. The platform is 64 bit powerpc aix 6.1. Entire project is 64-bit and is built in one go. I made mistake in emailing the details by hand, here is the copy paste: machine:/home>nm -X64 libboost_regex.a | grep do_assign ._ZN5boost11basic_regexIcNS_12regex_traitsIcNS_16cpp_regex_traitsIcEEEEE9do_assignEPKcS7_j T 189268 .. .. On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Stian Zeljko Vrba wrote:

You didn't write anything about your platform, but a wild guess: bitness-mismatch; e.g., trying to link a 32-bit object file with a 64-bit library.

Also, you're running nm on the wrong files to check for symbols. If you're linking statically, you should run nm on the .a files, not on the .so files. ------------------------------ *From:* Boost-users on behalf of Jyoti Sharma via Boost-users *Sent:* Friday, September 15, 2017 12:10:25 PM *To:* boost-users@lists.boost.org *Cc:* Jyoti Sharma *Subject:* [Boost-users] Linker error when using Boot regex on AIX

I am using boost_1_61_0. In my code I have:

#include static boost::regex testxp("[");

I have these libraries: libboost_regex.a libboost_regex.so

I can see these libraries have symbols: LIBRARY: Shared object libboost_regex.so: 136 symbols imported. LIBRARY: Shared object libboost_system.so: 7 symbols imported.

To build my program I have added these linking options: -Wl,-bnoquiet -Wl,-Bstatic -lboost_regex -lboost_system -Wl,-Bdynamic

But I get this error during linking: ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .boost::basic_regex >::do_assign(char const*, char const*, unsigned int)

But that symbol is there: machine:/home> nm libboost_regex.so nm libboost_regex.so |grep do_assign ._ZN5boost11basic_regexIcNS_12regex_traitsIcNS_16cpp_ regex_traitsIcEEEEE9do_assignEPKcS7_j T 268508592 machine:/home> c++filt ._ZN5boost11basic_regexIcNS_ 12regex_traitsIcNS_16cpp_regex_traitsIcEEEEE9do_assignEPKcS7_j .boost::basic_regex >::do_assign(char const*, char const*, unsigned int)