Re: [boost] building shared boost libraries

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-15 11:25:56

At 09:12 PM 1/14/2002, Timothy M. Shead wrote:

 >> We haven't considered installation too much yet, but it's in the works.
 >
 >> Is libtool really the answer to everything on platforms where it's
 >> available?
 >
 >
 >Using libtool, a package that I maintain builds/links/properly installs
 >shared libraries under modern unices, static libs under older Unices
 >that don't support shared libs, and DLLs under Cygwin/Windows without
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 >any intervention on the users' part - so I'd say "yes".

Careful.  That's too long a tool chain.  Cygwin, like Python, is a 
wonderful package, but we don't want Boost users or developers to be 
required to install it.

--Beman