[boost] Re: [iostreams] Link errors on msvc-stlport with dynamicruntime

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-15 02:23:59

Ulrich Eckhardt wrote:
> On Monday 14 February 2005 08:00, Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>> Three iostreams tests are failing with the toolset msvc-stlport. All
>> the unresolved symbols are specializations of standard library
>> function templates.

> Anyhow, the problem is the compiler that has problems with code where
> 0. 1200 <= _MSC_VER < 1300 (this affects only VC6 and eVC4, AFAICT)
> 1. a class (not functions!) is imported from a library (e.g.
> _STL::locale)
> 2. the class contains template functions or ctors
> 3. inlining is deactivated

I tried to force inlining by adding the requirements
<msvc-stlport><*><cxxflags>-Ob2 or <msvc-stlport><*><inlining>on, but neither
solved the linking problems. In order to get all the tests to link I had to add
<msvc-stlport><*><runtime-link>static.

Jonathan