Re: [boost] Default variants on windows

Subject: Re: [boost] Default variants on windows
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-11 08:47:55

Peter Dimov wrote:

> * runtime-link=dynamic, threading=multi, variant=(debug|release)
> 
> but VC++8 DLL RTL deployment is somewhat painful so most people immediately
> switch to static (or forget and later switch to static, cursing quietly,
> when it's reported to them that the program doesn't start with
> initialization error 0xC00something.)

Peter,

just to clarify -- when switching to static runtime, do folks generally use
static libraries, as opposed to DLLs? IIRC, DLLs with static runtime is not
very good idea.

- Volodya