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

Subject: Re: [boost] auto-link with gcc/windows
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-07-06 13:05:57

> It looks to me that there are only a couple of undefined symbols because 
> the serialization
> autolink code is being enabled by BOOST_HAS_DECL which is now being used
> to enable "visibility".   This is likely even more confused as I believe 
> I've used this
> or something like it to trick the compiler/linker into suppressing code 
> stripping
> of code not otherwise explicitly referred to.

GCC's visibility feature is actually very similar to msvc's import/export 
feature - just a different name.  Using it to prevent code being stripped 
will continue as before for msvc, and probably have no effect (as before) 
for gcc.

Cheers, John.