Re: [Boost-users] header-only libraries

I am not sure if there are not still some compilers/linkers that do not support mixed linking of libraries (static and dynamic)

Excuse my ignorance, what's this? How can one link a library both statically and dynamically?

Further, afaik, with static linking you won't have link-time-optimization and dead code removal (at least until boost has been compiled with the appropriate options, which it isn't by default)

Well, it's quite trivial to add something like cxxflags=/GL, so it doesn't seem to be an issue. OTOH, build times might grow significantly in a header-only version.

Still, asio offers this possibility

I believe, this's for historical reasons: before 1.44 asio was header only, since 1.44 there was added the separate compilation option.