Hide threading header
Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 5:02 pm
It would be nice to hide the headers of threading dependencies. Have a look what happend after including Ogre.h:
Ogre.h -> OgrePrerequisites.h -> OgrePlatform.h -> OgreConfig.h -> OgreBuildSettings.h
Ogre.h -> OgrePrerequisites.h -> Threading/OgreThreadDefines.h -> Threading/OgreThreadDefinesBoost.h
Ogre.h -> OgrePrerequisites.h -> OgreStdHeaders.h -> Threading/OgreThreadHeaders.h -> Threading/OgreThreadHeadersBoost.h -> BOOST
That means you have to add boost to all Ogre projects. Evan if you use Ogre as shared libraries, you also have to add boost. It would be helpful to include the threading libraries only in cpp code or headers which only used for building Ogre to avoid including any external library using the SDK. Using windows is also adding more issues because of boost auto linking, which is enabled by default.
Ogre.h -> OgrePrerequisites.h -> OgrePlatform.h -> OgreConfig.h -> OgreBuildSettings.h
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#define OGRE_THREAD_SUPPORT 2
#define OGRE_THREAD_PROVIDER 1Ogre.h -> OgrePrerequisites.h -> OgreStdHeaders.h -> Threading/OgreThreadHeaders.h -> Threading/OgreThreadHeadersBoost.h -> BOOST
That means you have to add boost to all Ogre projects. Evan if you use Ogre as shared libraries, you also have to add boost. It would be helpful to include the threading libraries only in cpp code or headers which only used for building Ogre to avoid including any external library using the SDK. Using windows is also adding more issues because of boost auto linking, which is enabled by default.