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

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-24 14:27:21

Christopher Woods wrote:
> 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
...
>>
>>                                system - Binaries names do not include
...
>> ...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?

The libs versioned creates are internally versioned. It only creates 
*links/copies* with the unversioned names. For example, in Windows, if 
you link to the unversioned DLL link library (boost_*.lib), the 
resulting binary will depend on the versioned DLLs. Same applies on the 
Unix side.

The libs produced by the system layout, are built internally without the 
version info (if I remember correctly).

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