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Subject: Re: [boost] Question on ABI tags and autolinking
From: Philip Lowman (philip_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-19 22:20:03


On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:25 PM, <boost-request_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> > 5. Is there a consolidated list of Boost libraries online for which
> > MSVC/Borland/etc. auto-linking is always against the shared library? I'd
> > like to be able to link the end-user to a list of these, if possible.
> >
>
> All libraries support both static and dynamic linking, although
> filesystem has a #error for the shared library on borland.

Yes, but I vaguely recall the MSVC autolinking choosing dynamic linking for
certain libraries like Boost.python. Are all of these exceptions to the
static libraries defined anywhere I can point the user to (is what I'm
asking).

Thanks for the help on the other questions.

-- 
Philip Lowman

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