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: 2010-08-21 18:19:01

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Bo Jensen <jensen.bo_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Jürgen Hunold <juergen.hunold_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> Hi Bo,
>>
>> On Tuesday, 10. August 2010 15:43:45 you wrote:
>>> But in the build process it clearly builds a sulum-lib.dll i.e not
>>> sulum-lib.lib.
>>
>> Are you sure you are actually exporting anything from sulum-lib ? Link.exe has
>> the nasty feature of omitting the .lib file when no symbols are defined.
>>
>> Could you please post the command line created for "sulum-lib.dll" next time ?
>>
>> Yours,
>
> Gentlemen, I think we got the issue here. I will see if it corrects
> the error and report back. Thanks for your help, sorry for such a
> simple mistake.
>
>>
>> Jürgen
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Even it is a bit late, I just want to say my mistake was as suggested
none exported functions in the dll i.e dll became empty and not
created. It was a bunch of autogenerated interfaces, so thats why I
missed it. Thanks to the ones responding.