Re: [boost] [atomic] [release] possible linking problem with atomic (was: [1.53.0] Beta release candidates available)

Subject: Re: [boost] [atomic] [release] possible linking problem with atomic (was: [1.53.0] Beta release candidates available)
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-01-10 14:02:16

On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Olaf van der Spek <ml_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 7:17 PM, Andrey Semashev
> <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Eric Niebler <eric_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>> Fwd'ed from the users list...
>>>
>>> On 1/10/2013 9:37 AM, Olivier Tristan wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Don't know if It's suppose to be normal but it looks that the newly
>>>> added boost atomic requires linking against a static lib by default.
>>>> This seems wrong as this an header only package.
>>>>
>>>> Please note that I'm using a fresh 1.53 beta 1 with no define like
>>>> BOOST_ATOMIC_DYN_LINK or BOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK
>>>>
>>>> BOOST_DYN_LINK is greyed out when I open the header in the editor so
>>>> it doesn't look like to be defined.
>>>>
>>>> (Visual c++ 2005 SP1)
>>>>
>>>> Am I missing something here ?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks !
>>
>> As I understand, static libs are the default on Windows. So unless
>> specified otherwise, Boost.Atomic follows other libs in this regard.
>>
>> Note that it is ok to link statically with Boost.Atomic if only one
>> module of the application uses it.
>
> The point is the user appears to think it's a header-only lib.

Oh, I missed that. Well, it's not a header-only library.