Boostcon 2008

This page will contain the notes that I will make during Boostcon 2008. For a trip-report, see the Trip report boostcon 2008-page.

Boost.Extension & Boost.Reflection

Extension

Problems with shared libraries

• performance
• differences in semantics of open, close, getprocaddr
• name mangling, extern "C" losing type safety

shared_library m("my_module_name");
m.open();
m.get<int(float)>(function_name")(5.0f);
m.close();

Reflection

as expected...

liaw Tuesday

quickbook

Joel

• docs in boost head/tools

Installing it on windows:

• quickbook uses boostbook uses docbook.
• problem with latest xslt: do not download latest version (may have been fixed). Use 1.66.1 version. Not listed on sourceforge. Just change url while downloading from sf.
• Eric's docs demonstrate how to use doxygen

Eric:

import doxygen
import quickbook;

doxygen autodoc
   :
     [ glob ../../../boost/xpresive/*.hpp]
   :
     <doxygen:param>X=Y
;

xml xpressive
  :
     xpressive.qbk
  ;

boostbook standalone
  :
        xpressive
  :
     

• boostdocs mailinglist discusses how to get rid of boost-headers.
• URLs to code can be svn urls.

range

[www.boost-consulting.com/vault/ file vault]

range_ex has versions of stl algorithms that accept ranges. return type can be customized (range, iterator, what range).