Re: [Boost-users] [python] unresolved docstring_options symbolswith1.34.0 using msvc 8 and 9

From: Johan Johansson (johan2sson_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-07-18 18:30:53

"David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message 
news:87y7heuzlu.fsf_at_grogan.peloton...

>> I've looked at the output of -a -ofilename as suggested in the Building 
>> and
>> Test HOWTO but I can't really say that I see any difference that matters.
>
> I suggest looking harder.  If that doesn't work, replace the
> quickstart example code with your code and see if it works through
> Boost.Build.
>
> HTH,

It did help. In case someone else comes a-googling for the same problem: the 
quickstart example doesn't have any opinion about linkage which means the 
auto-linking kicks in and that just works. I was trying to link statically 
which means I defined BOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_LIB and for reasons I no longer 
remember BOOST_PYTHON_SOURCE. This worked with 1.33.1 but apparently turns 
off the auto-linking in 1.34.0, which I don't think was used by Boost.Python 
before, and auto_link.hpp would have told me that I was trying to link 
statically and dynamically at the same time.

Regarding the inconsistency between library names, using --toolset=msvc-8.0 
instead of --toolset=msvc solved that problem.

Thanks for the coaching. I really appriciate it.

j