Re: [boost] [xint] Third release is ready, requesting preliminary review

Subject: Re: [boost] [xint] Third release is ready, requesting preliminary review
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-02 20:37:25

Chad Nelson wrote:
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> On 05/02/2010 02:49 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
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>>> If I were using a library, I'd prefer that it didn't have an
>>> unnecessary dependency on another library that would require me to
>>> add that other library to my build system (which, at least under
>>> Linux, would be necessary),
>> Could you clarify? On Linux, the official way is the shared linking, 
>> and therefore the client does not need to care what dependencies
>> libxint.so might have -- they will be picked up automatically.
> 
> I'm not familiar with shared linking. I don't think I've seen it work,
> because (as an example purely from memory) when I try to use
> Boost.FileSystem, I have to manually put in instructions for the linker
> to link to Boost.System as well, or I get linker errors.

I think this is either problem with specific library (easy to fix), or you
were actually using static linking, or it was Windows (which does not
have all the same magic).

- Volodya