Re: [Boost-users] Some suggest to the author of Serialization Lib

From: Wang Yun (a_hao_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-10 11:49:44

goodmen wrote:

>Dear Robert Ramey ,
>	Here is a new boost user ( but an 'old' c++ programmer ) writting to you.
>Now , with several  painful night , my test code of serialization lib has't run.
>
>	OK , as some letter in the list , I meet the link problem.
>The libs has been compiled and linked with bjam correctly,and the lib files have 
>been copied to the right position.But the compiler complained there are some symbol
>not resolved.
>	I have inspected the source code,and find the serialization use some file in the 
>[[archive]] dir. And in the docs, there are no any info about archive. It seems that
>archive is not an independent lib(bjam not compile the archive files,but copy the
>header file to the destination dir). Some classes in the archive are used by Serialization,
>but the implementation of these classes are not processed by bjam,so these class 
>excite link errors(not compile errors!).
>
>	Another feedback about your code is that There are not any C1204 compile error in MSVC71 
>if you build in the release mode. It seems that in debug mode, the compiler add addition info
>to the result binary and madee the scope of compiling became to too large to the compiler.
>
>	Here are some questions about the serialization:
>1, Is the archive written by you ?
>2, Is the archive an independent lib? 
>3, how can I solve the link problem?
>4, It seems that there is not a single header file that can be included by user who want
>   to use the serialization(and the user can forget all other header files ). Do you have
>   any plan to add this feature ?
>
>   Here are my suggestions:
>1, Take the archive to be an independent lib.
>2, Move the whole serialization code to the head file,so there is no need to compile the
>   lib with the bjam,and this can bring more protablity.( Since the io stream interface 
>   of stl is standard, I think it is no need to compile code into platform specific libs )
>
>
>note:   I am a Chinese , and my english is poor . If some word above offends you or seems
>        to be impolite , forgive me please ^_^
>
>
>
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Hi, add these lines, will solve the link problem.

#if !defined(BOOST_WHATEVER_NO_LIB) && !defined(BOOST_WHATEVER_SOURCE)
# define BOOST_LIB_NAME boost_serialization
# ifdef BOOST_WHATEVER_DYN_LINK
# define BOOST_DYN_LINK
# endif
# define BOOST_LIB_DIAGNOSTIC
# include <boost/config/auto_link.hpp>
#endif

#ifdef _UNICODE
#if !defined(BOOST_WHATEVER_NO_LIB) && !defined(BOOST_WHATEVER_SOURCE)
# define BOOST_LIB_NAME boost_wserialization
# ifdef BOOST_WHATEVER_DYN_LINK
# define BOOST_DYN_LINK
# endif
# define BOOST_LIB_DIAGNOSTIC
# include <boost/config/auto_link.hpp>
#endif
#endif