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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-16 18:41:33
Juergen Hunold <hunold_at_[hidden]> writes:
> Hi Dave !
>
> On Thursday 16 November 2006 18:41, David Abrahams wrote:
>> Juergen Hunold <hunold_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> >> I hope there's a compelling reason for statically linking.
>> >
>> > The only reason is to be consistant on all platforms. The use of
>> > shared libraries with msvc requires special support. This support
>> > is not available for serialisation, so we link static for _all_
>> > platform now in order to get (nearly) the same errors on all
>> > platforms.
>>
>> Why is that a desirable thing?
>
> Because is took me several days to figure out why dynamic linking on
> Unix (Linux in this case :-)) ) works and dynamic linking on Win32
> would produce "unresolved symbol _main".
That does nothing to answer my question, I'm afraid.
> The documentation Gennadiy is currently working on would have helped a
> lot, but it is a surprise (at least it was for me) that one thing that
> is working on one platform suddenly breaks when using another platform
> with the _same_ source code. And this was what happened to me :-((
There are all kinds of platform dependencies in this world; I don't
know why it should surprise you.
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com