From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-08 12:39:09
> The extracted directory contains 1246 Files (8.75 MB), and it looks
> like it contains bind, function, iterator, mpl, preprocessor, regex,
> thread, type_traits, utility, smart_ptr libraries from boost.
> (boost/mpl contains 649 files, boost/preprocessor contains 149 files)
>
> Although I used make files to build (VC80), when building regex, it
> didn't require the thread library. I wonder whether it is really
> necessary.
It's used as a fallback when it can't otherwise identify the threading
model, and I suspect that Boost.Thread is responsible for pulling in bind
and function (since I don't use them).
> I wonder whether similar tricks are available for regex as well.
You could comment out the thread lib includes in
boost/regex/pending/static_mutex.hpp and see if that helps.
John.