What does Boost mean by “header-only libraries” and “automatic linking”?
问题 On the Boost library documentation page, there are two categories named " Header Only Libraries " and " Automatic Linking ". I suppose "Header Only Libraries" means you don't have to link against Boost libraries in order to use them, and "Automatic Linking" means you have to link. But when I use Boost.Timer , I have to link a static or dynamic library named timer ( libboost_timer.a and libboost_timer.so.1.48.0 and various soft links to these under Linux library path), which is apparently the