Re: [Boost-users] Serialization triggers .lib and .exp file generationin VS2005

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-10 17:29:11

well, we wouldn't put it in there if there was an easy way around it.

You could comment out all the _export keywords in the code.  But
its doubtful that serialization of pointers could be made to work.

good luck with that.

Robert Ramey

Thomas Voigt wrote:
> Robert Ramey schrieb:
>> This is a side effect of the steps taken inhibit the compiler from
>> eliminationg code not explicitly referred to. (aka code stripping).
>
> So is there a way around it? Since we use boost in a rather controlled
> environment (only VS2005) we could patch it locally.
>
>> Just ignore the *.exp and *.lib files.  I 'm surprised that they
>> take a lot of time to generate but I don't know how to
>> avoid it and have the serialization library still work as
>> advertised.
>
> I would estimate that the generation takes 20-30 seconds. This may not
> seem long, but it adds up over the course of a day.
>
> Regards, Thomas