On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:39 PM, E. Wing <ewmail...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Also, one additional thing. If you use Boost_LIBRARIES it will >> automatically contain all of the libraries you specify after the COMPONENTS >> line (including debug/optimized keywords). This is often fine for many >> Boost use-cases. If it's not and you must link individually, the way you >> were doing it should work fine, just make the components be UPPERCASE. >> > > So I am building a sub-library (currently static) of a larger project. This > sub-library only needs the date_time library of the components I listed. I > don't have a strong opinion either way of whether I link to just date_time > or the whole thing; it's just that the original Makefile I'm converting from > singled this out. Do you feel that I'm better off using Boost_LIBRARIES? >
If you're comfortable with maintaining the dependencies where they are needed I would recommend doing it the way you were planning on and use Boost_<COMPONENT>_LIBRARY, it also handles the debug/optimized links for Visual Studio. I only mentioned Boost_LIBRARIES so you knew it existed and a partial theory as to why this documentation bug probably hasn't cropped up on the mailing list before. There actually are a couple of good reasons not to use Boost_LIBRARIES (linking time would in theory be faster, if done correctly you would know at a glance which libraries of yours depend on which boost libraries). That being said most people probably don't really care. :) -- Philip Lowman
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