Python - Boost - Cygwin linker error

[Jason Tishler]

Dave,

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 07:06:37PM -0500, David Abrahams wrote:
> Jason Tishler <jason at tishler.net> writes:
> > On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 07:42:28PM -0800, Stéphane Vaxelaire wrote:
> >> I get an error at link time that appears to occur between Boost code
> >> and python lib. Here is the output :
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > [snip]
> >
> > Note that this occurs automatically for Distutils built shared
> > extensions.  If Boost.Python is built using a different mechanism,
> > then -DUSE_DL_IMPORT will have to be specified manually.
> 
> Naw, Boost.Python's own build mechanism (Boost.Build) also adds
> -DUSE_DL_IMPORT automatically for Cygwin.

Thanks for the clarification -- I was hoping that you would chime in.

> This only happened because Stéphane decided to build things
> ``manually'' in the first place ;-)

Ah.  I knew that I was going to get myself into "trouble" with the loose
wording above -- sorry, for the misinformation.

Jason

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