Re: libboost?

[Daniel Colascione <dan dot colascione at gmail dot com>]

On 1/9/11 10:44 PM, Steven Woody wrote:
> I noticed cygwin comes with libboost.  I then come up with a question:
>  Can I develop c++ application using libboost without distribute
> cygwin1.dll and other cyg**.dll files?  Usually, as I understand, if I
> want to develop c++ application, I have to distribute cyg**.dll.  I am
> trying to bypass this limitation.

First of all, most of boost is made up of header-only libraries that
don't involve any linking at all. You'll need to compile any remaining
components with the mingw cross-compiler, e.g., with
CC=i686-w64-mingw32-gcc and link them against your application yourself.

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