[boost] Re: metrowerks cw runtime failures

From: Gennadiy Rozental (gennadiy.rozental_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-01 15:06:15

>> Ever since I fixed bug with locale/manipulators handling (particularly I
>> added std::locate-support to the list of requirements in Jamfile for
>> Boost.Test libs) all cw-8_3 tests seems to be crashing at runtime. From 
>> what
>> I see it's somewhere in iostream implementation. Also I noticed following 
>> in
>> build log:
>>
>> ### mwld Linker Warning:
>> #   Multiply defined symbol: std::ios_base::ios_base(void)
>> (??0ios_base_at_std@@IAE_at_XZ) in
>> #   files test_tools.obj (libboost_test_exec_monitor.lib),
>> MSL_All-DLL80_x86_D.dll (MSL_All-DLL_x86_D.lib), keeping definition in
>> MSL_All-DLL80_x86_D.dll
>
> The 8.3 version of CodeWarrior for Windows does not support locales from 
> dynamic libs.  The UseDLLPrefix.h header is commonly used to properly set 
> up the import/export flags.  This header will also #define _MSL_NO_LOCALE 
> which disables locale support.
>
> When linked against static versions of MSL_All, full locale support is 
> available.
>
> -Howard

>From what I see it was linked against static version of library (that what 
std::locale-support does). Linker produced only warnings. So what should I 
do to eliminate runtime crash?

Gennadiy