Hi,Hi, I'm trying to link to Boost.Thread DLL's. If I define BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB everything works fine - but it wants to link all packages as DLL, instead of just Boost.Thread.
None of the following cause dynamic linking - that is I get a linker
error saying the static *.lib could not be found. (defined on the
command line, Visual Studio 2010)
BOOST_THREAD_NO_LIB
This should not be defined because otherwise it inhibits the others.
BOOST_THREAD_DYN_LINK
This should make linking wit the dll
BOOST_THREAD_ALL_DYN_LINK
This is unknown.
BOOST_THREAD_BUILD_DLL
BOOST_THREAD_USE_DLL
These are legacy macros that equivalent to BOOT_THREAD_DYN_LINK.
Is there a problem with
- what I'm doing;
- Visual Studio 2010; or
- boost.thread?
Form the 1.50 documentation
"Boost.Thread is configured following the conventions used to build libraries with separate source code. Boost.Thread will import/export the code only if the user has specifically asked for it, by defining either BOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK if they want all boost libraries to be dynamically linked, or BOOST_THREAD_DYN_LINK if they want just this one to be dynamically liked.
The definition of these macros determines whether
BOOST_THREAD_USE_DLL is defined. If BOOST_THREAD_USE_DLL is not
defined, the library will define BOOST_THREAD_USE_DLL or
BOOST_THREAD_USE_LIB depending on the platform. On non windows
platforms BOOST_THREAD_USE_LIB is defined if is not defined. In
windows platforms, BOOST_THREAD_USE_LIB is defined if
BOOST_THREAD_USE_DLL and the compiler supports auto-tss cleanup
with Boost.Threads (for the time been Msvc and Intel)"
Please, could you create a ticket so that an error is issued when
incompatible macros as BOOST_THREAD_NO_LIB and
BOOST_THREAD_BUILD_DLL are used?
HTH,
Vicente