Re: [boost] filesystem::path windows DLL link probs

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-15 19:50:38

At 01:35 AM 9/10/2003, Paul Hamilton wrote:
 >
 >In building my stuff into windows DLL's, and getting all of the exports
 >right, I find that other boost libraries have also not been setup
 >correctly to be able to be used within a dll on windows.
 >
 >All of the filesystem/path code needs to have __declspec's added to the
 >entry points so that it correctly imports when used externally, and
 >exports when used from within it's own library (just like Regex does).
 >
 >I am happy to go ahead and do this work if nobody else has done it.

Hum... There is a BOOST_HAS_DECLSPEC macro. There are BOOST_PYTHON_DECL, 
BOOST_SIGNALS_DECL, BOOST_REGEX_DECL, etc, macros, but not overall 
BOOST_DECL macro. What gives? I would have thought we would have had such 
an animal a long time ago. Or does every dll need its own?

Anyhow, if you want to propose a solution for the Filesystem library, it 
would be appreciated both by me and by users too I'm sure.

Thanks,

--Beman