I think I'm not linking the boost libary. But I checked many times and can't find any error. The test file I'm using is John Maddock's regex_split_example_1.cpp. I just renamed it to test.cpp, I also have a Makefile that look like this: *************************************************** CC = gcc MY_DIR = /home/dzhou/boost_1_27_0 MY_LIB = -L$(MY_DIR)/libs/regex/build/gcc MY_INCLUDE = -I$(MY_DIR) CFLAGS = -g -v -D_REENTRANT -Wall $(MY_INCLUDE) LIBS = $(MY_LIB)/libboost_regex.a LIBS_RPC = -lnsl RANLIB = ranlib RPCGEN_OPTS = -C .cc.o: $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $< PROGS = test all: ${PROGS} test: test.o ${CC} ${CFLAGS} -o test test.o ${LIBS} **************************************************** I've build the libary with make -f gcc.mak and it made the gcc dir I've tryed to play around with gcc.mak by changing g++ to gcc because I was getting errors with g++ also. #complier: CXX=gcc LINKER=gcc -shared here is the error that I'm getting: *********************************************************** gcc -g -v -D_REENTRANT -Wall -I/home/dzhou/boost_1_27_0 -c test.cc Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/specs gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release) /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/cpp0 -lang-c++ -v -I/home/dzhou/boost_1_27_0 -D__GNUC__=2 -D__GNUG__=2 -D__GNUC_MINOR__=95 -D__cplusplus -Dsparc -Dsun -Dunix -D__svr4__ -D__SVR4 -D__sparc__ -D__sun__ -D__unix__ -D__svr4__ -D__SVR4 -D__sparc -D__sun -D__unix -Asystem(unix) -Asystem(svr4) -D__EXCEPTIONS -g -Wall -D__GCC_NEW_VARARGS__ -Acpu(sparc) -Amachine(sparc) -D_REENTRANT test.cc /var/tmp/ccmuQP2y.ii GNU CPP version 2.95.3 20010315 (release) (sparc) #include "..." search starts here: #include <...> search starts here: /home/dzhou/boost_1_27_0 /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/../../../../include/g++-3 /usr/local/include /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/../../../../sparc-sun-solaris2.7/include /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/include /usr/include End of search list. The following default directories have been omitted from the search path: End of omitted list. /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/cc1plus /var/tmp/ccmuQP2y.ii -quiet -dumpbase test.cc -g -Wall -version -o /var/tmp/ccW67QRe.s GNU C++ version 2.95.3 20010315 (release) (sparc-sun-solaris2.7) compiled by GNU C version 2.95.2 19991024 (release). /usr/ccs/bin/as -V -Qy -s -o test.o /var/tmp/ccW67QRe.s /usr/ccs/bin/as: WorkShop Compilers 5.0 98/12/21 gcc -g -v -D_REENTRANT -Wall -I/home/dzhou/boost_1_27_0 -o test test.o -L/home/dzhou/boost_1_27_0/libs/regex/build/gcc/libboost_regex.a Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/specs gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release) /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/collect2 -V -Y P,/usr/ccs/lib:/usr/lib -Qy -o test /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/crt1.o /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/crti.o /usr/ccs/lib/values-Xa.o /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/crtbegin.o -L/home/dzhou/boost_1_27_0/libs/regex/build/gcc/libboost_regex.a -L/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3 -L/usr/ccs/bin -L/usr/ccs/lib -L/usr/local/lib test.o -lgcc -lc -lgcc /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/crtend.o /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.7/2.95.3/crtn.o ld: Software Generation Utilities - Solaris-ELF (4.0) Undefined first referenced symbol in file boost::bad_expression::~bad_expression(void)test.o boost::re_detail::c_traits_base::class_map test.o cout test.o string_char_traits<char>::assign(char &, char const &)test.o ostream::write(char const *, int) test.o string_char_traits<char>::compare(char const *, char const *, unsigned int)test.o boost::bad_pattern virtual table test.o __length_error(char const *) test.o boost::bad_expression virtual table test.o istream::ipfx1(void) test.o boost::c_regex_traits<char>::transform(basic_string > &, basic_string > const &)test.o ostream::operator<<(ostream &(*)(ostream &))test.o boost::c_regex_traits<char>::init(void)test.o endl(ostream &) test.o boost::re_detail::c_traits_base::lower_case_map test.o string_char_traits<char>::set(char *, char const &, unsigned int)test.o string_char_traits<char>::eos(void) test.o cerr test.o boost::bad_pattern::~bad_pattern(void)test.o boost::regbase::regbase(void) test.o ios::rdbuf(void) const test.o ostream::operator<<(char const *) test.o boost::re_detail::c_traits_base::syntax_map test.o runtime_error virtual table test.o boost::c_regex_traits<char>::transform_primary(basic_string > &, basic_string > const &)test.o boost::c_regex_traits<char>::toi(char)test.o ostream::operator<<(unsigned int) test.o string_char_traits<char>::copy(char *, char const *, unsigned int)test.o boost::re_detail::c_traits_base::do_lookup_class(char const *)test.o boost::c_regex_traits<char>::m_free(void)test.o boost::re_detail::c_traits_base::error_string(unsigned int)test.o streambuf::sbumpc(void) test.o boost::c_regex_traits<char>::update(void)test.o boost::re_detail::c_traits_base::do_lookup_collate(basic_string > &, char const *)test.o cin test.o string_char_traits<char>::length(char const *)test.o istream::isfx(void) test.o boost::bad_expression::bad_expression(basic_string > const &)test.o string_char_traits<char>::move(char *, char const *, unsigned int)test.o boost::c_regex_traits<char>::toi(char const *&, char const *, int)test.o ios::setstate(int) test.o __out_of_range(char const *) test.o ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to test collect2: ld returned 1 exit status *** Error code 1 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test' ********************************************************* Just a note, I don't have any errors when I test tokenizer ex: *************************************** #include #include <iostream> #include int main(){ using namespace std; using namespace boost; string s = "Field 1,\"putting quotes around fields, allows commas\",Field 3"; tokenizer tok(s); for(tokenizer::iterator beg=tok.begin(); beg!=tok.end();++beg){ cout << *beg << "\n"; } } **************************************** however, it works with g++ only and not gcc. :/ - thank for any info. - David