[sldev] Define for wiki: Boost hell...?

[Rob Lanphier]

On 06/08/2009 11:02 AM, Dale Mahalko wrote:
> The topic of problems with Boost comes up a lot on this mailing list.
> The SL wiki is extremely vague on the topic, saying only it is an
> external library used for tokenization, but that is all. A search of
> the wiki for "tokenization" turns up nothing.
>
> In general I get the idea that this has something to do with:
>
> 1. The free Visual Studio Express is missing something from the
> commercial product
> 2. The free C++ Boost libraries are being used to replace whatever it
> is that is missing
> 3. ....??... Boost is apparently not a perfect matched replacement for
> the missing bits
> 4 .....??... Whatever the inbuilt adaptation is for Boost support,
> it's not very good
>
> Or something like that. Can someone explain so it can go in the wiki?
>
>   

Hi Dale,

I'm assuming you're referring to this page:
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Microsoft_Windows_Builds

The problem is that it's not possible to provide precompiled Boost
libraries that work for both VS 2005 and VS 2008. Since Linden Lab has
standardized on VS 2005, that's what we provide. Unfortunately,
Microsoft has stopped supporting VS 2005 Express, only offering VS 2008
Express, so there is a strong desire to have VS 2008-compatible
libraries from a number of people who want to use the free libraries.

Rob