Re: [boost] auto-link with gcc/windows

Subject: Re: [boost] auto-link with gcc/windows
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-05 18:07:48

Jürgen Hunold wrote:
> Hi Robert !
>
> On Monday, 5. July 2010 19:35:02 you wrote:
>
>> In my code I use BOOST_HAS_DECLSPEC but I'm having problems with
>> mingw.  I'm not sure it has anything to do with this, but it's not
>> at clear to me
>> what the differing meanings are of  BOOST_HAS_DECLTYPE and
>> BOOST_HAS_DECLSPEC.
>
> BOOST_HAS_DECLSPEC is the interesting one.
> Please find a patch adding two more "#define
> BOOST_SERIALIZATION_SOURCE" to the sources. This fixed compilation
> for me when using gcc's symbol visibility and might help here as
> mingw uses symbol visibility "under the hood" for
> __declspec(dllimport/-export).

I'm aware of this "fix".  I'm very reluctant to just do it because I don't 
understand
why it works or should work.  So it's almost certain that if I just do this, 
It
will come back to torture me some time just after the next version is 
released.

Robert Ramey