[boost] Re: serialization - build shared libs

From: Neal D. Becker (ndbecker2_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-19 07:52:54

Russell Hind wrote:

> I have successfully built serialization as dlls under bcc32 by
> duplicating the two 'lib' sections in the JamFile and renaming them to
> dll and then adding the <dll>libboost_serialization and
> <dll>libboost_wserialization to the install and stage sections.
> 
> Could this be done in the JamFile before 1.32.0 is released?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Russell
> 
> Russell Hind wrote:
>> 
>> 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).
>> 

The issue is not whether you can build dll, but whether it will actually
work correctly.