Re: [jamboost] Re: Re: bjamv2: linking exe with whole list of system libs

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-24 06:58:58

Vladimir Prus wrote:

> Generally, <library> should be preferred to <find-shared-library> in all 
> cases. The second one is too dumb and is mainly for internal purposed. But 
> that brings us back to the order question. I think you need specific order of 
> libraries because there are dependencies between them.
> 
> You can express that using the <use> property. Hmm... it seems I've started to 
> making that property work with searched libraries, but has not finished 
> yet... done now, you'd need to fetch revision 1.4 of tools/unix.jam
> 
> Now, if I have:
> 
> exe main : main.cpp b a ;
> lib a ;
> lib b ;
> 
> Then the command line contains: "-la -lb". If I have
> 
> exe main : main.cpp b a ;
> lib a ;
> lib b : : <use>a ;
> 
> then the command line contains "-lb -la", as it should if 'b' uses function 
> from 'a'.
> 
> So you can try this approach, too.

This works like a charm. Thanks !!!