Re: [Quantlib-users] libQuantLib.so linkage with libboost on Ubuntu-11.04-64

[Dirk E. <ed...@de...>]

On 29 July 2011 at 13:51, Hong Yu wrote:
|  
| My workstation upgraded recently, so I need to recompile QuantLib on a
| Ubuntu-11.04-64bit system.  When checking the result using command    ldd
| libQuantLib.so   , I find that libQuantLib seems to be linked to libboost in a
| static way.

Just run 'sudo apt-get install libquantlib-1.0.0 libquantlib0-dev'.

| May I ask, is it possible to modify the configuration and/or compilation
| parameters, so that resulted libQuantLib.so will be linked to libboost in
| shared way?  Thanks a lot!

Boost is a template library, all dependencies are resolved at _compile-time_.
The package shows now dependency on Boost (and the dependencies are
autogenerated based on ldd):

~ $ apt-cache show libquantlib-1.0.0
Package: libquantlib-1.0.0
Priority: optional
Section: universe/libs
Installed-Size: 16140
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubu...@li...>
Original-Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <ed...@de...>
Architecture: amd64
Source: quantlib
Version: 1.0.1-1
Replaces: libquantlib0
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libstdc++6 (>= 4.4.0)
Conflicts: libquantlib0
Filename: pool/universe/q/quantlib/libquantlib-1.0.0_1.0.1-1_amd64.deb
Size: 4969932
MD5sum: 806351920ee47281821bf74ce20d30b7
SHA1: 4b02af317328c0afabd9c36de53b53737e188068
SHA256: 1af69f0fd5f48af5861cb1f386314ac15ab246c5f270eb22540cde30603011fc
Description: Quantitative Finance Library -- development package
 The QuantLib project aims to provide a comprehensive software framework
 for quantitative finance. The goal is to provide a standard free/open
 source library to quantitative analysts and developers for modeling,
 trading, and risk management of financial assets.
 .
 This package provides the shared libraries required to run programs
 compiled with QuantLib.
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Origin: Ubuntu

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Hth, Dirk

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