Re: [Boost-users] library name for boost 1.36

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] library name for boost 1.36
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-11-16 13:50:02

Robert Dailey wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Alain Leblanc <aalebl_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks. bjam --help describes it well. Probably a case where RTFM
>>> would have been an appropriate answer.
>>>
>>> a
>>>
>>>
>>> 2008/10/28 Steven Watanabe <watanabesj_at_[hidden]>:
>>> > AMDG
>>> >
>>> > Alain Leblanc wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I just built boost 1.36 for the mac and all the library names have
>>> >> xgcc40 inserted in the middle, such as
>>> >> libboost_iostreams-xgcc40-mt-1_36.dylib. It breaks my makefiles that
>>> >> contain the option " -lboost_iostreams". Is there a reason for the
>>> >> xgcc40 in this version and not the others, and is there a way to
>>> >> instruct bjam not to include it in the filename.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > Pass --layout=system to bjam to prevent the library names from being
>>> > mangled with the compiler/options/version.
>>> >
>>> > In Christ,
>>> > Steven Watanabe
>>>
>>
>> I'm responding to this topic to ask about how to make the LIB files not
>> prefix with "lib". For example, right now I'm running the following command:
>>
>> bjam --toolset=msvc --build-type=complete --layout=system debug stage
>>
>> An example of how a library is output is:
>>
>> libboost_filesystem-mt-gd.lib
>>
>> I would like the libs to look like:
>>
>> boost_filesystem-mt-gd.lib
>>
>> Any idea how I can do this? Also, I need to figure out how to make the
>> boost build process dynamically link against the standard C++ libraries, as
>> right now it is statically linking against them.
>>
> 
> I just realized what is going on. It's building both the dynamic and static
> versions of boost. Not sure how to tell it to build just the dynamic
> versions.

See:

        http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/advanced/invocation.html

- Volodya