Re: Conditional including library based on platform

From: jjanzer0 (yahoo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-18 16:32:02

That's sort of what I want but I'd really prefer to have the
conditional based on the OS or based on a defined value in a header
file. Is this even possible?

--- In jamboost_at_[hidden], "Pedro Ferreira"
<pedro.ferreira_at_m...> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > Hi I need to include the wsock32 libraries conditionally when I'm
> > building a project on windows (and I don't want to link it in
when I'm
> > in linux)...
> >
> > I'm sure this is very trivial but I'm having a very hard time
figuring
> > out how to actually do it, I have something like the following:
> >
> > project client
> > : requirements <include>../common ;
> >
> > lib lwsock32 : : <name>wsock32 ;
> >
> > exe myClient
> > : client.cc
> > lwsock32
> > ;
> >
> > That works fine, but what I need is to actually include a
conditional
> > in bjam v2, in order to load it (only in windows)... something
like
> > <toolset>gcc:<library>lwsock32
> > but using some variable instead.
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I'm not really sure if this is what you intend (it's still too early
in the 
> morning...) but, if you want to include the lib if using msvc and
not 
> include it if gcc, you can do this:
> 
> lib lwsock32 : : <name>wsock32 <toolset>msvc ;
> 
> alias lwsock32 : : <toolset>msvc ;
> 
> exe myClient
> : client.cc
> lwsock32
> ;
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Pedro