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Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost.DLL formal review is ending soon - submit your reviews
From: Gavin Lambert (gavinl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-07-17 04:02:56
On 15/07/2015 19:35, Antony Polukhin wrote:
> This is a recurring issue with boost libraries. Header only makes
> for a convenient library for many users - just include the header
> and try it out. On the other hand, for a large project where one is
> willing to invest more effort, a compiled library is attractive. I
> believe that for many libraries, it's possible to make the library
> such that one could have both by providing different #include for
> each type. This comment applies not to just this library but to
> others as well. Of course it wouldn't apply to all libraries. I
> would love to seem someone invest some effort to see if this is
> possible for this or some other library. Then if such an experiment
> were successful, we'd write up an article about it and include it in
> the boost body of work.
>
>
> This could be useful. I'll think of adding a BOOST_DLL_USE_LIBRARY macro
> and compiling DLL as a library
Don't invent something new -- there's existing plumbing for this (see
BOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK and friends).
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