Re: [boost] [log] Boost.Log formal review closing down

Subject: Re: [boost] [log] Boost.Log formal review closing down
From: Zachary Turner (divisortheory_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-18 15:12:02

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 1:51 PM, vicente.botet <vicente.botet_at_[hidden]>wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrey Semashev" <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>
> To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [boost] [log] Boost.Log formal review closing down
>
>
> >
> > On 03/18/2010 01:10 AM, vicente.botet wrote:
> >>
> >>>>> mc is not present in MinGW, GCC or MSVC Express. You would have to
> >>>>> install Windows SDK or full MSVC to get it. The mc tool is expected
> to
> >>>>> be present in MSVC 10 Express. I have added the note to the docs in
> >>>>> trunk about that.
> >>>>
> >>>> What this tool does, and can the library work without? Could this be
> used conditionaly?
> >>>
> >>> It is the Message Compiler. It is required for the Event Log backend on
> >>> Windows.
> >>
> >> Could this be used conditionaly?
> >
> > Not right now, I'm afraid. But I have plans of improving configurability
> > of the library.
>
> Great. Let me know when the library will be able to run on platforms not
> supporting wide chars, without dependencies to external tools (mc) and in
> single thread.
>
>
Unless I'm mistaken, you can already use it without dependency on external
tools if you're not using the event log backend.  If you are using the event
log backend, the the mc compiler isn't a requirement of boost.log, it's a
requirement of windows itself so I don't see any obvious ways around it.

Zach