[boost] Re: serialization - build shared libs

From: Russell Hind (rh_gmane_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-19 05:53:10

Robert Ramey wrote:
> 
> a) if you mean creating libraries which contain exactly the same
> functionality as libboost_serialiation.lib and libboost_wseralization.lib
> then there should be no problem as far as I know. Note that you might have
> problems if you loading/unloading the shared libraries multiple times under
> program control. I'm not sure. I haven't tested this and have left it for
> latter.  Mainly this is because it should use the ABI autolink to be line
> with other boost libraries and work better for users.
> 

So will serialization build dlls by default when 1.32 ships?  I've just 
started to build it with bcc32 and currently use auto-link which forces 
everything to be a dll (due to thread requiring to be a dll on win32 in 
1.31).

Thanks

Russell