Re: [Boost-build] shared library naming on windows

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] shared library naming on windows
From: Bo Jensen (jensen.bo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-10 09:43:45

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 August 2010 14:27:38 Bo Jensen wrote:
>
>> I am building a shared library on windows, which is build correctly
>> with .dll extension, but when linking into a exe application the
>> linker looks for .lib extension and fails.
>
> Could you provide the exact error message?

It is the same with or without the no auto linking option :

LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'bin\intel-win\debug\threading-mult
i\sulum-lib.lib'

        call "C:\Programmer\Intel\Compiler\11.1\065\bin\ia32\iclvars_ia32.bat" >
 nul
xilink /DEBUG /subsystem:console /out:"bin\intel-win\debug\threading-multi\sulum
.exe"   @"bin\intel-win\debug\threading-multi\sulum.exe.rsp"
        if %ERRORLEVEL% NEQ 0 EXIT %ERRORLEVEL%

...failed intel-win.link bin\intel-win\debug\threading-multi\sulum.exe bin\intel
-win\debug\threading-multi\sulum.pdb...
...failed updating 2 targets...
...updated 92 targets...

But in the build process it clearly builds a sulum-lib.dll i.e not
sulum-lib.lib.

>
>> The library is included
>> into the exe build as :
>>
>> somelib/<link>shared
>>
>> and no other link options is used on command line. The library
>> "somelib" is including several boost libraries which is linked
>> statically,

In my project specs I got :

     <library>../../../external/boost/libs/program_options/build//<link>static
     <library>../../../external/boost/libs/system/build//<link>static
     <library>../../../external/boost/libs/filesystem/build//<link>static
     <library>../../../external/boost/libs/iostreams/build//<link>static
     <library>../../../external/boost/libs/thread/build//<link>static
     <library>../../../external/boost/libs/date_time/build//<link>static

which are the libraries used in the code for the sulum-lib.dll, I want
to link them static.

Is -d2 the right command to get debug information at linking ?

>
> Could you clarify what is "linked statically"?
>
>> can this be the problem ?
>>
>> I am using intel for compile and linking with msvc8.
>>
>> Any help is appreciated.
>
> You might want to have <define>BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB to disable autolinking.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Vladimir Prus
> http://vladimir_prus.blogspot.com
> Boost.Build: http://boost.org/boost-build2
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