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

From: spock_at_[hidden]
Date: 2008-06-11 03:19:37

Robert Ramey wrote:
> 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.
>
> well, we wouldn't put it in there if there was an easy way around it.

Sure :-)

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

Could you elaborate what the problem is exactly? We don't want to serialize
pointers, at least not at the moment.

Regards, Thomas