Re: [boost] question re autolink

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-21 05:44:40

> "These macros will be undef'ed at the end of the header, further this 
> header
> has no include guards - so be sure to include it only once from your
> library!"
>
> What is the rationale for the above?  What happens if its violated.  I'm
> sort of struggling implementind a dll version of the serialization library
> with autolink.  The basic difficulty is that I would like to have the dlls
> mirror the structure of the the static libraries. That is
>
> libboost_serialization.lib
> libboost_wserializaton.lib depends on theabove
>
> wserialization.dll is both autolinked and uses serializaton.dll so Its 
> kind
> of confusing.

I think I may have over stated that, more correctly:

It's up to you to ensure that it is included only once for any give 
definition of BOOST_LIB_NAME, so obviously if you need to link to two or 
more libs then include it more than once with a different BOOST_LIB_NAME 
each time.

John.