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The BOOST Python library is intended only for use in constructing
a Python module, so only a shared library is supplied.
David Abrahams, the upstream maintainer posted this to the BOOST
mailing list.
1. AFAIK libboost_python is only useful from a shared lib (python
module) -- oh, I suppose you could use it for embedding python in
another app, but I've never tried it, and libboost_python.so would
work just as well, wouldn't it?
2. It was originally implemented as a static lib just because that's
much simpler to get right across platforms. There was no
libboost_python.so. Since a static lib on Unix is just an archive of
.o files, those .os had to be shared-linkable.
3. Eventually I made libboost_python.so as a replacement, which
saves lots of space in every extension module. I kept
libboost_python_static.a, as I've said, to keep people who were
attached to using the static lib happy.
Message-ID: <24af01c1c244$5b845b50$0500a8c0@boostconsulting.com>
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