John Maddock wrote:
Edward Diener wrote:
I was recently using the date/time library for the first time, used functionality which I was pretty sure was not in the built library based on the documentation, yet autolinking code was brought in to force me as an end-user to specify the location of the import library. When I defined BOOST_DATE_TIME_NO_LIB in my project settings, everything linked fine without specifying the import library, so obviously the DLL was not needed. Nobody wants to distribute a shared library with their code when it is unnecessary.
This is a known issue with that specific library: I did make an attempt at refactoring the headers at one point to fix this, but it went beyond my understanding of the library, so this really need Jeff Garland's help to be done correctly.
Thanks for letting me know it is a known issue. I hope this can be enforced for all libraries for the sake of Boost end-users, to not have libraries linked in when they are not needed.