[boost] Re: Re: (For me a) showstopper [was: boost thread staticlibrary]

From: Michael Glassford (glassfordm_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-02-19 10:01:53

"Roland" <roland.schwarz_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:20040219074625.ESPZ2453.viefep20-int.chello.at_at_speedsnail...
> On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 07:04:07 -0500 Michael Glassford
<glassfordm_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> >
> > For what it's worth, I'm hoping to investigate what it would take
to
> > make Boost.Thread support a static library option again in the
future.
> > If such a thing ever happened (no promises), it would have to be a
> > version in which features that require the dll are disabled.
> >
>
> Mike, this is a rather conservative estimate I think. As I already
> have tried to show you that this can be done without any
> omission of features at all. Altough at the price of the application
> creating a (hidden, temporary) file on the target machine.
> I am currently trying to create a local modification of the
> threading library with static linkage, that has full function.

You're absolutely right. The last couple of weeks have been so hectic
I temporarily forgot your interesting "pseudo-dll" solution, and I
apologize. Thanks for reminding me and and for working on it.

> I think I should send this to the list for discussion then.
> (BTW, the DLL version can be left totally unaltered.)

Please do! All my "Boost time" at the moment is spent answering posts
and preparing to move things from the thread_dev branch to the main
branch a piece at a time (after discussing each piece here first).

> Roland
>
>
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