Thomas Heller wrote:
Am 20.06.2017 4:20 nachm. schrieb "Peter Dimov via Boost" < boost@lists.boost.org>:
Thomas Heller wrote:
Err, I tend to highly disagree here. As a library author, I can not know if my users need a static or shared library.
You don't have to know. You provide library::static and library::shared targets, they link to whatever they prefer.
That's problematic​. There are platforms which don't allow for shared libraries. Is the implication that I always have two sets of binaries lying around? Sometimes, objects need to be built differently, so I'll get to build everything twice by default?
I don't understand what you're saying here. Having two targets doesn't mean that both get built. If the project links to the target, it gets built, otherwise not.