Re: [Boost-users] library name for boost 1.36

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Robert Dailey wrote:

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Alain Leblanc wrote:

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Thanks. bjam --help describes it well. Probably a case where RTFM would have been an appropriate answer.

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2008/10/28 Steven Watanabe :

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Alain Leblanc wrote:

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I just built boost 1.36 for the mac and all the library names have xgcc40 inserted in the middle, such as libboost_iostreams-xgcc40-mt-1_36.dylib. It breaks my makefiles that contain the option " -lboost_iostreams". Is there a reason for the xgcc40 in this version and not the others, and is there a way to instruct bjam not to include it in the filename.

Pass --layout=system to bjam to prevent the library names from being mangled with the compiler/options/version.

In Christ, Steven Watanabe

I'm responding to this topic to ask about how to make the LIB files not prefix with "lib". For example, right now I'm running the following command:

bjam --toolset=msvc --build-type=complete --layout=system debug stage

An example of how a library is output is:

libboost_filesystem-mt-gd.lib

I would like the libs to look like:

boost_filesystem-mt-gd.lib

Any idea how I can do this? Also, I need to figure out how to make the boost build process dynamically link against the standard C++ libraries, as right now it is statically linking against them.

I just realized what is going on. It's building both the dynamic and static versions of boost. Not sure how to tell it to build just the dynamic versions. The static libraries have the "lib" prefix it seems.