Re: [Boost-users] Auto-linking + serious Xplatform dev => mutuallyexclusive?

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-08 04:39:29

> Am I missing something? Is this only useful on Windows? I'd love for
> it to work in general, but I think I have to replicate the logic in my
> build system which means I shouldn't really use it on Windows (since
> my logic will already be there).

It's only useful if your compiler supports it, period.

However, those compilers that do support it typically have a number of 
different binary-incompatible build variants: figuring out which lib variant 
to link against without it in those cases is tricky, this is a frequent 
cause of problem reports caused by picking the wrong variant.

Actually, I could never really understand why more compilers don't support 
this :-(

John.