Re: [Boost-users] Using different compilers with boost

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Using different compilers with boost
From: Dan Smithers (dan_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-26 06:12:53

>> I need to use several compilers for my project for different target
>> computers. I have built boost 1.37 for gcc 4.1.2 and 3.4.3 and
>> everything seems to be nicely set up as
>> <boost_dir>/lib/libboost_xxx-gcc34-mt-1_37.so and
>> <boost_dir>/lib/libboost_xxx-gcc41-mt-1_37.so.
>>
>> Is there anyway of automatically detecting which version to link? I
>> suppose that gcc --version  and some sort of awk script could do this.
>>   
> 
> gcc -dumpversion is more useful for automated processing.
> 
> For example,
> gcc -dumpversion | perl -p -e 
> 's/(\d)\.(\d)\.\d/-lboost_xxx-gcc$1$2-mt-1_37/'

Thanks Steven, just what I was looking for.

dan