[boost and xerces] ping maintainers

[Werner Wothke]

Larry and Greg,

Thank you for your responses, I overlooked these libraries, mostly 
because I have not been using them. Your guidance was
very educational!

Werner


Greg Chicares wrote:
>> Can you point out to me where you see any Boost DLLs? I only see *.hpp 
>> template files.
>>     
>
> The boost filesystem library is an example; my installation has,
> in /lib/ :
>
> $ls libboost_file*
> libboost_filesystem-gcc-mt-1_33_1.a
> libboost_filesystem-gcc-mt-s-1_33_1.a
> libboost_filesystem-gcc-mt-s.a
> libboost_filesystem-gcc-mt.a
>
> which IIRC were all gotten via 'setup.exe'.
>
> I gather from a glance at the boost links above that these might be
> buildable as dlls instead of as static libraries, but I think what's
> relevant to your question is that this library has '.cpp' files that
> must be compiled separately. I believe Václav was referring to boost's
> sui generis build system, which I always found a bit odd; if you want
> to avoid it, this might be worth a look:
>   http://boost-extras.sourceforge.net/gnu-boost/gnu-boost.html
> | Tired of trying to compile boost with some weird tool only a very
> | few understand? Try GNU boost!
>
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