Re: [Boost-users] Why does G++ have no auto-linking like VC?

From: Olaf van der Spek (olafvdspek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-12 17:57:42

On 7/12/07, David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to gmane.comp.lib.boost.user as well.
>
>
> on Thu Jul 12 2007, "Olaf van der Spek" <olafvdspek-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Why does G++ have no auto-linking like VC?
>
> It's probable that nobody on this list knows.

Why?
I assume the question has come up before and Boost developers have
looked at what g++ supports.

> > And what is the recommended way to link to a Boost lib with g++ or
> > make?
>
> See http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html
>
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