Re: [Boost-users] Suppress generation of unversioned .lib

From: Christopher Woods (cwoods_eol_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-24 13:47:59

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Braden McDaniel wrote:
>> Is it possible to suppress generation of the unversioned .lib file when 
>> building on Windows?
> 
> ] cd <boost-root>
> ] bjam --help
> ...snip...
>    --layout=<layout>       Determines whether to choose library names
>                            and header locations such that multiple
>                            versions of Boost or multiple compilers can
>                            be used on the same system.
> 
>                                versioned (default) - Names of boost
>                                binaries include the Boost version
>                                number and the name and version of the
>                                compiler.  Boost headers are installed
>                                in a subdirectory of <HDRDIR> whose
>                                name contains the Boost version
>                                number.
> 
>                                system - Binaries names do not include
>                                the Boost version number or the name
>                                and version number of the compiler.
>                                Boost headers are installed directly
>                                into <HDRDIR>.  This option is
>                                intended for system integrators who
>                                are building distribution packages.
> ...end-snip...
> 
> HTH.
> 

The default build on windows builds both versioned *and* unversioned
libs (at least for 1.34.0 - can't remember back to 1.33.1 building).  If
specifying "--layout=versioned" on the bjam command line results in
*only* versioned libs then the bjam 'default' is actually something
else, no?

-Chris