Re: [jamboost] BBv1, NT, exe's which export symbols.

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-17 15:54:18

c_andy_martin wrote:

> In my project, we are using a rather hackish plugin mechanism where
> serveral DLL's link against symbols exported by EXEs (via
> __declspec(dllexport) and __declspec(dllimport)). All works well,
> except that I can't figure out how to tell Boost.Build that my DLLs
> depend on the EXE's generated import library. I am able to use
> Boost.Build to build everything, but I must take a two-pass approach
> (call bjam twice - the first time through ignoring all the failing
> targets, after the frist call, my EXEs import library is there and the
> second call works fine).

Don't know if this will work, as in I don't know if we made assumptions 
that invalidate it. But try setting this:

gIS_DEPENDENCY(EXE) = TRUE ;

In your Jamrules, you could also do "-sgIS_DEPENDENCY(EXE)=TRUE" just to 
test. This should allow you to use <exe>myexe in the dll targets. 
Hopefully that does the right thing and pick off the lib for the link.

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