Re: [Boost-users] Boost date time and MinGW

From: Franck Guillaud (f.guillaud_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-25 13:18:18

Jeff Garland a écrit :

> 
> Well, my guess is that somehow your -L option or the library name in the -l 
> are incorrect.  The difference is that to_simple_string depends on the 
> function you can't find from the library while most of the rest of date-time 
> code is inline. 

  Well, I'll try with other libs, just to see.

> When you remove that function all the rest of date-time is 
> compiling inline and hence no linker error. There's no reason I'm aware of to 
> use the PRE_1_33_FACET_IO with mingw so I'd recommend staying away from 
> to_simple_string and just writing:
> 
> inline
> std::string
> my_simple_string(date d)  {
>     std::stringstream ss;
>     ss << d;
>     return ss.str();
> }
> 
> It's likely that as support for older compilers is dropped to_simple_string 
> will be re-written in this fashion.
> 
> HTH,

  Thanks for your suggestion.
  Franck,e-