Am 20.08.2012 15:45, schrieb Lars Viklund:
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 04:44:26PM +0200, Kraus Philipp wrote:
Hello,
can I read the build / version of the installed Boost from a file? I would like to grep the version and multithread / singlethread install option from the Boost include directory.
The headers are completely untouched by the build process. No matter what build options you use, the number of headers and their content are fixed in stone.
For the Boost version, consult the defines in <boost/version.hpp>.
For the presence of libraries, that's trickier. Depending on the value of the --layout you used when building, they may or may not be decorated. See the documentation on the 'system', 'tagged' and 'versioned' layouts, as well as the table of decorations in the Getting Started guides [1][2].
Note that pretty much no modern system uses singlethreaded runtimes/builds nowadays, so it might not be an issue at all.
[1]
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_50_0/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html... [2]
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_50_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#libra...
Do I understand this correct, that I can change with b2 --layout the library name during the buildprocess? I have got the problem, that I build Boost under OSX & Linux and the library names shows libboost_random.dylib / *.so on Windows (MSVC) boost_random-vc100-mt-1_50.dll, so on linking I know the correct filename. I would like to have only (lib prefix)boost_random.<dll suffix> (I do not need the mt name, because I build only multithread libs) How can I change the layout of the name? Thanks Phil