This would be of great utility to me in our use of boost, and would save at least a gigabyte of disk space in each branch of our projects that use boost features, per version of boost, at the expense of one-time compilation. If you need a test site, I'd be happy to help out. andy On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:54 AM, Ulrich Eckhardt <doomster@knuut.de> wrote:
Hi!
I have in the past sometimes[1] described another alternative way to linking and quite a few people also seemed interested. Basically, it works by including the whole library code into the application that links to it. However, as opposed to a header-only library, the code is only included once in a translation unit of the linking program instead of inline via the header files.
Example: ---------
// lib.hpp: void foo();
// lib.cpp: void foo() { frobnicate(bar); }
// program1.cpp: #include <lib.hpp>
// program2.cpp: #include <lib.hpp>
// program_main.cpp: #include <lib.hpp> #include <lib.cpp>
int main() { foo(); }