RE: [boost] BOOST TEST and strict /Za - can theMSlanugageextensions option be enabled in a program

From: Paul A. Bristow (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-12 01:50:57

Thanks for confirming my fears.

I have indeed found a static library to be acceptable.

Your pragma suggestion promises to make it even easier.

Paul

| -----Original Message-----
| From: boost-bounces_at_[hidden]
| [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]]On Behalf Of Ehsan Akhgari
| Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 4:04 PM
| To: 'Boost mailing list'
| Subject: RE: [boost] BOOST TEST and strict /Za - can
| theMSlanugageextensions option be enabled in a program
|
|
| > I suspect (but have not got enough Hungarian language skills and MS
| > Internals to get it to work) that a solution is to switch on the
| > LanguageExtensions using two functions:
| >
| > HRESULT __stdcall get_DisableLanguageExtensions(
| >    /* [out, retval] */ VARIANT_BOOL* retVal
| > );
| > HRESULT __stdcall put_DisableLanguageExtensions(
| >    /* [in] */ VARIANT_BOOL NewValue
| > );
|
| These functions will do no good.  They're only useful for IDE
| automation, and are of absolutely no use during a compile session
| (unless you plan to automate the whole compile session, which is too
| painful if you think of code management, etc.)
|
| > Ones seems to get into a Catch-22 in that these can only work if
| > LanguageExtensions  are already enabled!  Can any Windows Gurus can
| > advise?
| >
| > However I also find that linking with a test_tools static library is
| > not too inconvenient.  It can be built non-strict, but the actual test
|
| > modules can be compiled fully strict, though they produce some
| > warnings which look ignorable and/or fixable.  Probably Gennadiy can
| > find some more fun activities than fixing them ;-)
|
| I don't get what is so bad about a static library.  It can be built and
| later injected into projects using:
|
|  #pragma comment( lib, "library_name.lib" )
|
| The only thing that needs to be done is copying that library to the
| compiler's lib directory at library build time, which can be automated
| by using an "install" makefile option or something, like the Regex++
| library does.
|
|
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