Re: Building Boost with MSVC 6

Jeff Holle writes:

I too failed to build the BGL Graphviz I/O library via the supplied v1 Jamfile with boost_1_29_0 and boost_1_30_0. I suspect that this problem is because the task is too difficult for bjam v1 (lex/yacc issues), and expect this will be fixed with v2.

Boost.Build v1 supports lex and yacc, or at least it used to (code rots, and all).

On linux, the solution is to use the provided Makefile in the graph src directory. The only problem this Makefile had was not cleaning up the file graphviz_parser.h properly (with boost_1_29_0). It gets generated by lex.

On Windows, I don't exactly know how one gets lex/yacc and gcc tools.

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