On 7/12/07, David Abrahams wrote:

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to gmane.comp.lib.boost.user as well.

on Thu Jul 12 2007, "Olaf van der Spek" wrote:

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Hi,

Why does G++ have no auto-linking like VC?

It's probable that nobody on this list knows.

Why? I assume the question has come up before and Boost developers have looked at what g++ supports.

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And what is the recommended way to link to a Boost lib with g++ or make?

See http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started/unix-variants.html

-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://www.boost-consulting.com

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Why does G++ have no auto-linking like VC?

It's probable that nobody on this list knows.

Why? I assume the question has come up before and Boost developers have looked at what g++ supports.

Because we're not familiar with the detailed rationales used by the GCC team in deciding what features to support. I suggest you ask on a list where the GCC developers are.

I'm not a GCC developer, but the answers fairly simple. Linking in GCC depends on the order the libraries are specified. -lA -lB -lC -lD libA depends on libB depends on libC depends on libD Source level linking hints tend to cause problems with this. -- Bobby R. Ward ------------------------------ bobbyrward@gmail.com http://www.bobbyrward.com http://combustion.sourceforge.net