BOOST libraries in multithreading-aware mode

Question

There is a possibility to compile BOOST libraries in the so-called thread-aware mode. If so you will see \"...-mt...\" appeared in the library name. I can\'t understand wha

Answer 1

Because you did not specify how you have built, and on what platform, I'll explain the whole story. Both on Linux and Windows, Boost.Thread library is built in MT mode. On Windows, by default, you get -mt suffix for it. On Linux, by default in 1.42, you get no suffix. The reason you get no suffix on Linux is that pretty much no other library uses such convention, and it's much less important on Linux anyway.

Does this clarify things?