Re: [Boost-users] [signals2][review] The review of the signals2 library (formerly thread_safe_signals) begins today, Nov 1st

Igor R wrote:

I guess he meant something like this:

// windows-specific: boost::shared_ptr ptr(LoadLibrary("mylib.dll"), &FreeLibrary); // now you can bind "ptr" to the slots or anything that needs maylib.dll to be alive.

Oh -- so instead of using that shared_ptr for my real function, you're saying I could bind it as an ignored argument to a no-op function. That's true, and I thank you both for the suggested workaround. I remain hopeful that Frank might introduce a better solution before long. :-)