Re: Compiling a threads DLL using VC6

From: bill_kempf (williamkempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-17 13:13:50

--- In Boost-Users_at_y..., "sdussin" <sdussin1_at_t...> wrote:
> I just downloaded Boost and am trying to do some development using 
> it. Our product will be developed and fielded on both Win2K and 
> Solaris.
> 
> So far I've been using Boost solely on VC6, and I have a question 
> regarding building the threads library.  I've gotten the build to 
run 
> correctly, but it doesn't seem to build a DLL version of the 
library. 
> I looked in the both the runtime-link-static and runtime-link-
dynamic 
> dirs, and both contain only a .LIB version of the library. Is there 
> something I'm doing wrong here? Or am I misunderstanding what 
should 
> be generated?

I don't follow you here.  You built it correctly on what platform 
with what compiler?

Currently the Boost.Threads build process creates static link 
libraries on most platforms.  On the Win32 platform it also generates 
an extra DLL and its import library as an unfortunate necessity for 
implementation of TSS.

So... on all platforms you should get a libboostthread.lib static 
library and on Win32 you should also get a boostthreadmon.dll and 
boostthreadmon.lib import library.

> Any clarification or pointers would be greatly welcomed.
> 
> Thanx,
>    Steve Dussinger

Bill Kempf