Re: [Boost-users] Which boost libraries need libs?

26 Sep 2005

      Aaron, thanks for your information. Until yesterday, I have seen this 
the same way as you said. But then I succeeded to compile the unittest 
examples (those that are installed with boost)

   g++ -Ic:\boost\boost_1_33_0 unit_test_example1.cpp

without any link library.

I had modify this example a little, since without "#define geaendert_RK" 
it did not compile - neither with nor without libs.

   //  (C) Copyright Gennadiy Rozental 2002-2005.
   //  (C) Copyright Gennadiy Rozental & Ullrich Koethe 2001.
   //  Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
   //  (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
   //  http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)

   //  See http://www.boost.org/libs/test for the library home page.

   // Boost.Test
   #include 

   #define geaendert_RK       // required to compile with g++, BCB6 - RK
   #ifndef geaendert_RK
     using boost::unit_test::test_suite;//Unresolved external '_main'  - RK
   #else
     #include 
     using namespace boost::unit_test_framework;
   #endif

   // most frequently you implement test cases as a free functions
   void free_test_function()
   {
     // reports 'error in "free_test_function": test 2 == 1 failed'
     BOOST_CHECK(2 == 1); // non-critical test => continue after failure

     int* p = (int*)0;
     *p = 0;
   }

   test_suite*
   init_unit_test_suite( int, char* [] ) {
     test_suite* test= BOOST_TEST_SUITE( "Unit test example 1" );

     // this example will pass cause we know ahead of time number of 
expected failures
     test->add( BOOST_TEST_CASE( &free_test_function ), 1 /* expected 
one error */ );

     return test;
   }

   // EOF

Why does this compile without any libs?

Richard

Aaron Griffin schrieb:
...
On 9/26/05, Richard Kaiser  wrote:
...
Can anybody tell me, which of the Boost libraries need libs (usually
created with bjam)?
As far as I can see, for most of the Boost libraries source code
#includes are sufficient. For them, installation step 1 from the
"Getting Started"-page is sufficient. Or do I get something wrong?
If you build the whole shebang from scratch you can see which
libraries need libs and which don't.
In addition, you can look at this file list here:
http://archlinux.org/packages.php?op=files&id=5997
The /usr/lib entries will have all the libs with a standard boost
build.... I did the hard work for you... the following libraries
require .so/.a libraries:
boost_date_time
boost_filesystem
boost_iostreams
boost_prg_exec_monitor
boost_program_options
boost_python
boost_regex
boost_serialization
boost_signals
boost_test_exec_monitor
boost_thread
boost_unit_test_framework
boost_wave
boost_wserialization