On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:20 AM, Tim Blechmann <tim@klingt.org> wrote:
hi,
i need some help with resolving issue #7482: for some reason it seems to build a static libboost_atomic, although it has to be a shared library.
It can be built either way, depending on what the user requests.
could someone with more insights in this platform have a look, what's going wrong (and why the library is static)? unfortunately i neither have access to mingw, nor am i too familiar with the boost build infrastructure ...
I tried building the current release with these flags and successfully compiled the following libs: libboost_atomic-mt.a libboost_atomic-mt-d.a along with other static boost libs. I suppose, by default bjam builds static libs on mingw; you have to specify link=shared to build dlls (this also worked for me). I did some fixes to atomic jamfile in revision 81834, perhaps those fixes resolved the problem in the ticket. Or I just failed to reproduce the problem.