Re: [Boost-users] problem with building program_options (VC8)

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-30 10:46:31

Sergey Skorniakov wrote:

> I have build boost libraries with command line
> bjam --toolset=msvc --user-config=config32.jam --stagedir=.
> debug-symbols=on stage File config32.jam is:
> using msvc : 8.0 : : <cxxflags>"-wd4996 -wd4103 -Zp4"
> <define>_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE <define>_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE
> <define>_SECURE_SCL=0 <define>BOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE
> <define>BOOST_THREAD_USE_DLL <define>BOOST_THREAD_BUILD_DLL ;
> 
> The resulting libboost_program_options-vc80-mt-1_34.lib has size 7,420,264
> bytes and my program, builded with /D "_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE" /D
> "_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE" /D "_SECURE_SCL=0" /D "BOOST_THREAD_USE_DLL",
> crashes.
> 
> When I changed config32.jam to
> using msvc : 8.0 : : <cxxflags>"-wd4996 -wd4103 -Zp4
> -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE -D_SECURE_SCL=0
> -DBOOST_SPIRIT_THREADSAFE -DBOOST_THREAD_USE_DLL -DBOOST_THREAD_BUILD_DLL
> " ;
> 
> The resulting libboost_program_options-vc80-mt-1_34.lib size is 7,233,568
> bytes and my program works well. This looks like <define> in config file
> sometimes has no effect.

Per http://boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/reference/tools.html#bbv2.reference.tools.compiler.msvc,
it should have no effect indeed.
 
> Furthermore, program options library is alignment-sensitive.

Sorry, what is that, why is that a bad thing, and what are you proposing to
do about it?

- Volodya