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

Subject: Re: [boost] [exception] is static only?
From: Daniel Pfeifer (daniel_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-08-23 01:17:02

2012/8/22 Emil Dotchevski <emildotchevski_at_[hidden]>:
> 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.

Does that mean that the compilation of boost_exception could/should be
disabled for compilers other than MSVC?

Cheers, Daniel