Re: [boost] Re: jam question

From: Thomas Witt (witt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-11-02 03:41:55

Dave

I thaught about asking for this feature, so as you mention it

>On Friday 02 November 2001 06:31, you wrote:
> Actually, the situation is as follows:
>
> It always worked just fine for Unix toolsets. It was broken for WIndows
> toolsets, but I've just fixed it. The library specified with
> <find-library>xxxx is libxxxx.a on unix, but simply xxxx on windows.

If we have some kind of smart name deduction, shouldn't it be xxxx.lib
on windows?

Thomas

>
> Regards,
> Dave
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <williamkempf_at_[hidden]>
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> Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 6:11 PM
> Subject: [boost] Re: jam question
>
> > --- In boost_at_y..., Jeremy Siek <jsiek_at_c...> wrote:
> > > How do you tell jam to link in a library, where the library
> > > is from a 3rd party (and can be found in my LD_LIBRARY_PATH).
> > >
> > > (i.e., what's the equivalent of the compiler command line
> > > -l and -L options)
> >
> > I asked the same question of Dave and this was his response:
> > >You can use either the <library-path>path (-Lpath) and <find-
> >
> > library>xxx
> >
> > >(-lxxx) OR the <library-file>path/libxxx.a (path/libxxx) features
> > >
> > ><lib>xxx is just for dependency targets which can be built by the
> >
> > system.
> >
> > >Let me know if you need details.
> >
> > However, from a message I read earlier today I'm not sure that this
> > works correctly just yet.  I gathered that you needed to provide full
> > or relative paths... that standard techniques for finding them such
> > as LD_LIBRARY_PATH don't work.
> >
> > Bill Kempf
> >
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