RE: [boost] boost_signals.dll contains no symbols

From: Aleksey Chernoraenko (achernoraenko_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-02-14 16:25:48

Rene Rivera wrote:
>>Hi Doug,
>>
>>Sorry, I forgot about these dependencies. Actually we are using the
makefile
>>where BOOST_SIGNALS_STATIC_LINK is defined. 
>>There is another related issue. We would like to have automatic library
>>selection feature. This hides the details about which DLL to link to from
>>the users (regex library does the same thing). For this reason we made
>>header file and a few changes to include it. This header defines the
naming
>>scheme based on compiler options and contains the lib specifier (#pragma
>>comment) that allows to pass the library name to the linker.
>>
>>Unfortunately, I don't know bjam well to build the libraries and DLLs
which
>>file names will correspond to chosen naming scheme. 
>>By the way the regex's Jamfile cannot produce the files corresponding to
>>it's naming scheme. Maybe it is impossible in bjam system?

>Nothing is impossible ;-)

It great that bjam can do anything I will look at it more carefully.
Anyway I am sending the header file, changes and makefile. 

>So if you could tell us what the various names of the libraries that should
>be generated I can probably give you a stage rule that will generate them.

>Another alternative is to declare more targets (dll ...) with the specific
>names and options.

>>If you want I send the header and the needed changes.

>Perhaps that might help. I guess the header would have the mappings from
compiler to name.