Re: [Boost-users] Portability of boost libs for "universal linux binary?"

From: me22 (me22.ca_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-08-07 01:15:39

On 8/7/06, Zachary Mark <zmark_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I strongly suspect that the thread
> lib is going to be the biggest cause of grief towards accomplishing this
> goal (mostly due to the inability to static link it).  Are the other
> (non thread) boost libs statically linkable?
>
After building boost 1.33.1 in Gentoo with the static USE flag on, I
get a /usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt-s.a

I don't see anything (not header-only) in boost that doesn't have a static lib:
/usr/lib/libboost_date_time-mt-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_date_time-mt-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_date_time-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_date_time-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_filesystem-mt-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_filesystem-mt-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_filesystem-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_filesystem-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_iostreams-mt-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_iostreams-mt-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_iostreams-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_iostreams-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_prg_exec_monitor-mt-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_prg_exec_monitor-mt-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_prg_exec_monitor-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_prg_exec_monitor-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_program_options-mt-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_program_options-mt-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_program_options-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_program_options-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-mt-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-mt-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_python-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_regex-mt-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_regex-mt-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_regex-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_regex-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_serialization-mt-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_serialization-mt-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_serialization-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_serialization-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_signals-mt-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_signals-mt-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_signals-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_signals-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_test_exec_monitor-mt-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_test_exec_monitor-mt-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_test_exec_monitor-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_test_exec_monitor-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_thread-mt-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_unit_test_framework-mt-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_unit_test_framework-mt-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_unit_test_framework-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_unit_test_framework-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_wave-mt-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_wave-mt-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_wave-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_wave-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_wserialization-mt-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_wserialization-mt-sd.a
/usr/lib/libboost_wserialization-s.a
/usr/lib/libboost_wserialization-sd.a

~ SWMc