My system is having trouble building the boost libraries. I understand that most boost libraries are (fortunately) just headers that do not need to be build (with some exceptions). Does the boost :: signals2 library need to be built? Also is the boost.signals2 library dependant on the boost.signals library?
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Please see http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/98590/attention-grabbing-questioners – Robert Harvey Jul 14 '11 at 17:46
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Signals is not header-only, signals2 is. But however, signals2 is explicitly developed for thread-safety and if you use boost.thread, this has to be compiled. As far as I know signals2 is not dependent on signals headers.
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+1: Beat me to it! BTW. Only some parts of boost threads need to be compiled and linked and IIRC the mutexs signals2 uses do not. – Fabio Fracassi Jul 14 '11 at 09:31
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Yay! Frankly I hate building libraries, why can't people provide binaries themselves? (+1 and accept) – ApprenticeHacker Jul 14 '11 at 11:11
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@burningprodigy: what? because it's a free world. In fact, so free that you can simply `apt-get install libboost-dev' on the [majority](http://distrowatch.com/stats.php?section=popularity) of linux boxes. – sehe Jul 15 '11 at 09:51
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@ApprenticeHacker: did you ever take a look at the number of supported compilers and Operating Systems? If you can't figure out how to compile a Boost library then C++ is probably not for you anyway.. – Jay Oct 12 '12 at 12:24
