[boost] Re: serialization - build shared libs

From: Russell Hind (rh_gmane_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-10-19 09:28:24

martin.ecker_at_[hidden] wrote:
> 
> This effectively means that serializing a class defined in one DLL 
> from another DLL will not work properly. I've made some changes to 
> boost::serialization that allow DLL builds and allow using the library 
> with 
> modules/DLLs (even when they are explicitly loaded/unloaded multiple 
> times), but these changes have not yet made it into CVS.
> 

Is this the same issue?  I don't really want to use serialization as 
shared library, or access it from shared libraries, I only want to use 
it as a lib, but we also use boost thread which, on win32, currently 
forces us to build and link everything as dlls so our single exe becomes 
a single exe but with a multitude of boost dlls shipped with it 
(filesystem, thread) etc.

So that is why I need serialization as a dll because auto-link decides 
to use the dll.

Currently, I'm foce-linking to the static lib 
(libboost-serialization-bcb-mt-d_1_31.lib) and the stuff is working but 
I'd rather auto-link just picked up which dll to use as the rest of 
boost does.

Cheers

Russell