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

From: Craig Rodrigues (rodrigc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-03 22:23:27

On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 06:33:04PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> But probably we should add 'lib' automatically on Unix if no <tag> is 
> specified?

That would be my preference, and would be less confusing
to new users than having to use the <tag> feature, since it
is a very common use-case for libraries on Unix.

So, for the following line:
lib foobar : $(SRC) ;

On Linux, we would generate libfoobar.so
On MacOSX, we would generate libfoobar.dylib
On NT, we would generate foobar.dll

Is it hard to make this the default behavior for Boost Jam?

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Craig Rodrigues 
rodrigc_at_[hidden]