Re: [Boost-users] Automatically including libaries

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-12-05 23:54:42

Edward Diener wrote:
> Chris Morley wrote:
>> Hi, this is a how-is-it-done question rather than a problem. Ive
>> learnt a lot about c++ from using boost, but this one I just cant
>> work out. I installed boost and it dumped all the libraries in
>> c\boost\lib.Now I am slightly confused how I'm able to simply
>> reference a header file in c:\boost\include\blahblah yet I don't
>> have to include the specific libraries... somehow its done for me?!
>>
>> This is using visual studio, and whenever I have built lib files I
>> have to include the header file as usual, but also have to
>> explicitly drag the lib file into the project (or under the required
>> libraries in the linker tab).
>>
>> Any idea how this is done? Would love to be able to do this with my
>> libs!
>
> Look at the #pragma comment(lib,"SomeLib.lib") directive.

To see how boost code does it look at

www.boost.org/more\separate_compilation.html

Robert Ramey