[boost] Re: signals - VC7

From: Russell Hind (rhind_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-14 02:55:10

Bohdan wrote:
>         MT <->  single threaded,
>         std lib as dll <-> statically linked,
>         in dll <-> static lib
>         debug <-> release
>         ...

Not to mention debug vs non debug versions of the STL if you use STLPort :)

> And dealing with  bunch of libraries ( even if you have one compiler on PC ... )
> isn't good idea for such general and frequenly used library.
> The other option can be conidional #pragma comment ... for compilers which
> support this feature.
> 
> But IMHO template-inline would be still better, of course if there are no
> valuable
> reasons for current design.
> 

I am quite happy with libraries, and have taken regex's approach when 
building signals, thread, filesystem etc to append letters to the name 
depending on compiler settings.  I then use a #pragma link to link to 
the correct library.

Another, simpler, approach to not using the .lib is to add the signals 
soruce code to your project directly.  I used to do this until I built 
multiple versions of the .lib.  It worked fine, although in Borland 
C++Builder, I couldn't then have a name a cpp file with the same name as 
a boost .cpp file because the project manager couldn't handle it, even 
though they were in different locations.

Cheers

Russell