<user-interface> and dependencies

From: brock_peabody (bpyama_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-29 14:28:43

Hi,

With MSVC, <user-interface> specifies what value is passed to the 
linker for the /subsystem flag. I'm pretty sure that this only 
affects executables. An executable that is built for the console 
and an executable built as a gui can be linked with the same binary 
library files (static and shared). As soon as I specify an exe as 
being gui, however, bjam wants to rebuild a seperate copy of 
everything that this exe depends on for "user-interface-gui" even 
though it's not necessary.

What would be the correct way to make it so that <user-interface> 
only affects executables?

My work around for the time being is to change msvc.jam so that even 
console apps specify "/subsystem:windows", since I don't really need 
to build any console apps (though I like to for testing).

Thanks!