-----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of John Maddock Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 9:13 AM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [boost] Why do we build debug variants of our compiled libraries?
Anyway, my recommendation is that we stop building debug variants of compiled libraries by default. It's easy for the user to build them if they are really required.
There is one exception: if you're using VC++ or some other compiler
that
ships with multiple runtimes, then you *must* link against a Boost lib that's built against the same runtime as your application is using (probably a debug runtime during development). Of course on Linux (and probably most Unix variants) this is a non-issue.
John.
[Brian Braatz Writes:] thanks John- that is a good point I recall you CAN also accomplish rolling in a "release" version of the std runtime with debug build of an exe, but it is brittle and does not work in all cases for all types of projects- this solution requires you to very carefully tweak all the right compiler settings across all the libraries. In other words, just because you can doesn't mean you should :)