Re: [Boost-users] Does Program Options need pre-building?

From: Scott Morgan (blumf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-22 18:16:02

Ovanes Markarian wrote:
>  On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 3:00 PM, Scott Morgan <blumf_at_[hidden] 
<mailto:blumf_at_[hidden]>> wrote:
>
>     The Program Options lib is listed in the documentation as header 
only, but I'm getting error messages when attempting to build against it.
>
>     In particular it's complaining about not having 
'libboost_program_options-vc71-sgd-1_36.lib'
>
>  It's a lib and dependent on your linker settings it is either linked 
statically or as a shared library (DLL).

Ah, that's not what the docs say:

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_36_0
>
>  Program Options
>
>  The program_options library allows program developers to obtain 
program options, that is (name, value) pairs from the user, via 
conventional methods such as command line and config file.
>
>  Author(s)
>         Vladimir Prus
>  First Release
>         1.32.0
>  Standard
>         
>  Build & Link
>         Header only
>

Similarly the 'Getting Started' page doesn't list it as needing to be 
pre-built.

Should I file a bug report for that?

Scott