[boost] Re: Latest tarball and auto-link

From: Russell Hind (rh_gmane_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-11-03 10:37:13

John Maddock wrote:
> 
> Yes, if you're linking to the dll runtime then you can either link to 
> the static or the dll versions of the libraries.
> 
> The default is static linking in this release, defining 
> BOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK changes it to dynamic linking.
> 
> Boost.Threads uses dynamic linking by default because there is no static 
> version, or is there, actually I thought this had been fixed?
> 
> We also need to add something about this in the getting started docs.
> 

Thanks John, I didn't realise that even though I was using the dynamic 
runtime, I could still link to static boost libs, providing they were 
built with the dynamic runtime also.

Cheers

Russell