[CMake] libraryname decoration

Olaf van der Spek olafvdspek at gmail.com
Fri Jul 30 08:46:26 EDT 2010


On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, it IS library specific. Where do you think all these BOOST_MSVC and what not come from? It is very specific to Boost. No other project will be able to use this without heavy reworking.

That's just the MSVC version, available as _MSC_VER by default.

>>> For every new version of MSVC, Xcode etc. you have to update the file. Usually you will be lagging behind, and your users even more so. And then they will complain. To you.

Only if you include the toolset in the name.

Olaf


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