on Tue Feb 26 2008, "Simon Hammett" <div0-AT-users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
On 26/02/2008, Robert Dailey <rcdailey@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 7:00 PM, Stefan Seefeld <seefeld@sympatico.ca> wrote:
I'm not sure you would find help in any particular file.
However, the problem does sound rather simple: you want to build an executable when you actually build a library. That sounds like a pretty simple but fundamental setting in your project file.
I think I see where you're confused. What I meant to say from the very beginning is that I DO build an executable, however the linker ALSO outputs a .LIB file. In my project settings I have it setup to build an application (EXE), not a library! When I comment out the BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE() code, the library is no longer generated.
The boost python module code creates exports in your program. The ms linker will always generate a lib file for any dll/exe with exports. There is no option (at least in .net 2003) to not generate the .lib
If you #define BOOST_PYTHON_STATIC_MODULE as described in http://boost.org/libs/python/doc/v2/configuration.html, it will not try to export symbols for your extension module. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting http://boost-consulting.com