Re: [jamboost] every static library built twice ?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-18 06:16:04

> I've just finished building boost from current CVS. Command line used:
> $ bjam "-sTOOLS=mingw" "-sBUILD=debug release
> <runtime-link>static/dynamic <threading>multi/single"

Which will build four library versions:

static runtime single threaded
static runtime multi threaded
dynamic runtime single threaded
dynamic runtime multi threaded

> object files are binary identical, but library files are slightly
> different:

I would expect both to be different in most cases.

> 1. different names (extra -s letter, see sample bellow)
> libboost_signals.lib\mingw\debug\libboost_signals-mgw-d-1_31.lib
>
libboost_signals.lib\mingw\debug\runtime-link-static\libboost_signals-mgw-sd
-1_31.lib

See more/getting_started.html for a description of the lib naming
convention.

John.