[boost] Re: Invariants Library

From: Dan W. (danw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-01-04 03:21:09

Rene Rivera wrote:

> No. It has almost nothing to do with the *compiler*. The only way the 
> compiler is involved is in telling the linker which symbols are 
> externally visible. And getting your compiler of choice to let you tell 
> it what those symbols are is difficult, for the most part. For example, 
> just look at how hard it's been to get the DLLs/SOs for the Boost 
> libraries working. And even here for non-Windows platforms the best we 
> can do is to tell the compiler+linker to export everything.

I suppose that by "export everything" you mean that, for instance, 
implementation classes declared and defined in a cpp file, still show up 
as linkable to?