Re: [Boost-users] [Preprocessor] Relative Addresses in BOOST_PP_FILENAME_1

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Preprocessor] Relative Addresses in BOOST_PP_FILENAME_1
From: Hossein Haeri (powerprogman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-01-23 16:37:54

Hi Edward,

> It is because BOOST_PP_FILENAME_1 expands in a Boost PP
> header file. In GCC a relative file name is relative only to
> the file in which it is included. Since it is a Boost PP
> header file that does the including, your relative header
> file will not be found.
> 
> In VC++ on Windows relative header files are relative to an
> entire chain of header files being included to that point
> from the source file on down, so a relative header file as
> you have above would be found.

Well, isn't this addressable in Boost PP? I mean, can Boost PP just not make its expansion compatible with this cross-compiler issue?

> I ran into this same problem also and ended up just using a
> non-relative name of the form <boost\myLibrary\myHeader.hpp> for all
> compilers as the easiest solution.

But, this requires my clients to copy my stuff under their local Boost directory, right?

TIA,
--Hossein