Re: [boost] [exception] is static only?

Subject: Re: [boost] [exception] is static only?
From: Emil Dotchevski (emildotchevski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-08-22 15:47:06

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Neal Becker <ndbecker2_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Is it necessary that exception builds only static libs?  On many
> >> architectures,
> >> this would limit it's usefulness.
> >>
> >
> > Boost Exception is a header-only lib, except for the non-intrusive
> > exception_ptr support that is provided for some MSVC versions, which is
> off
> > by default.
> >
> Then I'm confused.  When I build using:
>
> bjam cxxflags=-march=native -sHAVE_ICU=1 -sEXPAT_INCLUDE=/usr -
> sEXPAT_LIBPATH=/usr/lib64 --layout=tagged threading=single,multi
> link=shared
> stage
>
> on fedora 17 x86_64, I got:
>
>   -rw-rw-r-- 1 nbecker nbecker    1662 Aug 21 10:34 libboost_exception.a
>   -rw-rw-r-- 1 nbecker nbecker    1662 Aug 21 10:44 libboost_exception-mt.a
>

Right, you don't need to link to this library. It's needed only if you
#define BOOST_ENABLE_NON_INTRUSIVE_EXCEPTION_PTR which you probably do not,
and certainly should not on Fedora, because the non-intrusive exception_ptr
support is currently implemented only on some versions of MSVC.

Emil Dotchevski
Reverge Studios, Inc.
http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode