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From: William E. Kempf (wekempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-03-12 11:25:52


Russell Hind said:
> I see that boost::thread has moved to a dll implementation (win32) in
> 1.30.0-b1. I have modified the JamFile for boost:thread so it builds
> the lib as well as the dll. Default build be made to do both, rather
> than just the dll? Or is boost moving to dll implementation only for
> all libraries?

This has been discussed before. The switch is a Boost.Threads switch
only, and not something that all Boost libraries are doing. It was done
to simplify the build process, since Win32 requires the use of a DLL for
TLS cleanup any way.

-- 
William E. Kempf

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