Re: Using multiple linkers

From: usovalx (A.S.Usov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-01 08:37:52

--- In jamboost_at_[hidden], "ANDREW MARLOW, BLOOMBERG/ LONDON 
OF" <amarlow1_at_b...> wrote: 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Usovalx <jamboost_at_[hidden]> 
> > To link it cleanly here (FreeBSD with intel fortran & g++) I 
have 
> > to use ifort as a linker for anything having fortran code in it 
> > (othervise it becomes really messy, believe me). 
> > 
> > AM> I believe you. But I promise you, it will be even more 
> > messy of you have C++ in the mix and do not use the C++ linker. 
> 
> To deal with that is relatively simple -- you just add to the list 
> of your libraries something like that: 
> 
> AM> you need to be sure that you can handle static constructors 
> and throwing exceptions across language boundaries. 

I am using it already this way for quite a time now. 
Static constructors work fine. With exceptions it's a bit more 
tricky -- I don't really need them to propagate across language 
boundaries (my fortran code is just a huge calculation, and it 
doesn't calls c++), so I don't really care about it. 
However this is still an issue if you want it to work on both linux 
& freebsd (you should build them differently -- on freebsd with 
ifort, and with g++ on linux), but it's exactly the reason I came to 
Boost.Jam in the first place ;) 

So, is there some way to have 2 different linkers, and to switch 
between them by adding the correct "<feature>" to the 
requirements-list? This will really solve most of mine problems.