Re: [Threads-devel] Unexpected dependency on boost date_time since upgrading to boost 1.35 on win32

From: Anthony Williams (anthony_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-16 10:44:26

Quoting David Ward <dward_at_[hidden]>:

> I'm using dynamic linking on windows and since upgrading to boost 1.35,
> I'm seeing a new dependency on the boost_date_time shared library.

Yes. The thread library now uses boost.date_time for all the timing  
related features including condition waits, sleeps and timed mutex  
locks.

You might get away without needing the date-time DLL: it depends on  
your usage.

> This isn't a big problem of course, but its nice to be able to ship as
> few dlls as necessary and we've never had to ship boost_date_time
> before. Is this something that could be addressed in future versions?

I'll talk to Jeff and see if we can arrange a header-only subset of  
boost.datetime which won't force the DLL to be linked.

Anthony
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