Re: [Boost-build] Newbie question: how to change import library name (windows)

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Newbie question: how to change import library name (windows)
From: Juan Carlos Franzoy (jfranzoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-09-11 09:48:23

It worked. Thanks, I'd forgotten IMPORT_LIB case.

2012/9/10 Jurko Gospodnetić <jurko.gospodnetic_at_[hidden]>

>   Hi.
>
>
>  I used <tag>@myrule to customize the library name, which was succesful,
>> except for the import library. The import library name remains the same
>> as the target name.
>> Does anybody know how to make boost.build change /IMPLIB linker flag for
>> mscv?
>>
>
>   I just played around with this for a sec and something like this seems
> to work as expected:
>
>  rule myrule ( name : type : properties )
>> {
>>     switch $(type)
>>     {
>>         case SHARED_LIB : return yyy.dll ;
>>         case IMPORT_LIB : return yyy.lib ;
>>     }
>> }
>>
>>
>> lib xxx : a.cpp : <tag>@myrule ;
>>
>
>   Tested using the msvc toolset and it creates a DLL named yyy.dll and its
> corresponding library names yyy.lib.
>
>   Note that here the myrule rule gets called three times - once for the
> intermediate OBJ target, once for the SHARED_LIB target (i.e. the DLL), and
> once for the IMPORT_LIB target.
>
>   Hope this helps.
>
>   Best regards,
>     Jurko Gospodnetić
>
>
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  Juan Carlos Franzoy
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