Re: [boost] [uuid] PR to remove auto-linking to advapi32 when BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB is defined

On September 15, 2016 12:19:01 PM EDT, Rene Rivera wrote:

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Edward Diener wrote:

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I don't know how to resolve a PR for uuid ( https://github.com/boostorg/uu id/pull/11 ). If a library exists only as a DLL and not as a static library should BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB still be considered in effect ?

My viewpoint is 'no' but the person who created the PR believes that the BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB config macro should turn off any #pragma auto-linking in code even when their is no other way to use a library other than as a shared library.

I agree with the PR. Someone defining BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB expects to have control of what they are linking. And they expect to get link errors for libs they need to link it. And it might be they are in the use case where they are creating a DLL/SO of their own and can incorporate external, in this case UUID, DLL code themselves.

That sounds right to me. The breakage will be at link time, so it isn't a big deal. -- Rob (Sent from my portable computation device.)