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Quelloquialism_sof
May '08

I'm usually a Java coder, so I don't know much about C. I can't figure out how to compile the C function provided for testing in the REX problem. Using Dev-C++, I am getting the error "In function 'match', 'regex_t' undeclared". I guess I am missing a required header file which gives the structure definition, but I don't know what header I am missing. I guessed and tried to do #include , but then I get the error "regex.h: No such file or directory" and regex_t is still undefined. I tried to find an answer on Google, but I can't find anything. Can anybody help me set it up?

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Quelloquialism_sof
May '08

I am on a Windows XP system using gcc 3.4.5 (mingw special); so maybe MinGW does not include the necessary header? Is there a way for me to acquire the header a different way?

Turbo
May '08

I'm not sure but possibly you need later version of GCC.

cjoa
May '08

GCC 3.4.5 is fine... In its default installation, MinGW does not include a regex library, so you need to install one by yourself, such as this MinGW Port2.

To install, just unzip the contents of the bin and dev packages into your MinGW folder.

To compile your C/C++ applications with the regex library, you need to append -lregex to your gcc command, as in:

g++ -o rex rex.cpp -lregex