Re: [jamboost] How to name libraries correct across platforms?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-03 09:33:04

Hi Craig,

> lib libfoobar : $(SRC) ;
...
> Now, on a Linux platform, the resulting output will be:
> libfoobar.so
>
> On Windows, this will be:
> libfoobar.dll
>
>
> I don't want this, I want the output of this to be:
> libfoobar.so on Linux
> foobar.dll on Windows

You can write:

lib foobar : $(SRC) ;

and then use the 'tag' feature to decorate the name to your liking. Take a 
look at tests/tag.py. It has a big Jamfile block at the beginning which can 
serve as example. You can also look at tools/stage.jam, rule 'rename'.

But probably we should add 'lib' automatically on Unix if no <tag> is 
specified?

> libfoobar.dylib on Mac OSX

Is this the right suffix for OSX? I think small tweak to tools/type/lib.jam 
should do the trick.

- Volodya

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