[boost] Re: auto-link and comeau?

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-01-04 00:08:35

David Abrahams writes:
> John Maddock wrote:
> >> I'd rather do something like this:
> >>
> >>    #if defined(BOOST_BZIP2_BINARY)
> >>    # define BOOST_LIB_NAME BOOST_BZIP2_BINARY
> >>    # define BOOST_AUTO_LINK_NOMANGLE
> >>    # include <boost/config/auto_link.hpp>
> >>    #endif
> >
> > Sounds reasonable to me, there's a first cut at this in mainline cvs now,
> > note that you don't specify a trailing ".lib" to the library name, so
> > something like:
> >
> > #define BOOST_LIB_NAME zlib
>
> Can we have something more explicit, and without abbrevs, like
>
>       BOOST_AUTO_LINK_LIBRARY_NAME
>
> ??

I second Dave's request here.

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering