Mail Archives: cygwin-apps/2002/05/04/10:43:59
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Abrahams [mailto:david DOT abrahams AT rcn DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:11 AM
> * Most of these libraries are just C++ templates in header files
Ah. I wasn't aware of that. Just dumb luck I guess - picking the regex
library, which does have a .a component, and a .so - but no .dll.
> * There is already a DLL version of the Boost.Regex and
> Python libs (the static lib version of Boost.Python is
> available but deprecated).
Where does one find the Regex dllized lib?
> * Nobody has decided what an appropriate unix-style
> installation for boost would look like (where the headers
> live, how the libs should be named and versioned, what
> symlinks to make, etc.). We need guidance on this. Normally
> we tell people to download the boost tree, put the root in
> their #include path, build the libraries, manually collect
> them and put them wherever they want. There has been
> increasing dissatisfaction with this approach.
Right. Uhmm, I think that debian makes the boost libraries available,
chances are that the packager there has found a good solution, or the
package would have failed there package linter.
I can (and will, but in no great hurry) look into that aspect a little
if you like.
Rob
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