[boost] Re: Questions re Jamfile for testing

From: Edward Diener (eddielee_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-04 11:45:47

Robert Ramey wrote:
> a) b) would it not make more sense for the filesystem test use the dll
> version of the library when the dll version of the c++ library is
> being
> used?  By the same token I would expect that if the static version of
> the
> c++ library is being used, then the static version of the filesystem
> library would be used.  Of course this isn't a requirement, but just
> a presumption that the most likely scenario is that a user that wants
> to use C++ libraries in dll from would likely want the same for other
> libraries.

I have argued this case before in general, and agree with it. In all the
dlls and libs which I have ever created as a Windows programmer I have
followed this pattern. When distributing third-party libraries I think it is
normal to distribute either an all dll system, with all dlls using the dll
version of the compiler's run-time library, or a single executable, with all
libraries linked being static libraries which use the compiler's static
version of the run-time library. I know that whether the dll or static
version of the run-time library is used can be detected at compile time from
preprocessor #defines for Microsoft's Visual C++ and Borland's C++ Builder
but I do not know if this is the case for other implementations.