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+<a name="stacktrace.configuration_and_build"></a><a class="link" href="configuration_and_build.html" title="Configuration and Build">Configuration and Build</a>
+</h2></div></div></div>
+<p>
+ By default Boost.Stacktrace is a header-only library, but you may change that
+ and use the following macros to improve build times or to be able to tune library
+ without recompiling your project:
+ </p>
+<div class="table">
+<a name="stacktrace.configuration_and_build.linkmacro"></a><p class="title"><b>Table&#160;37.1.&#160;Link macros</b></p>
+<div class="table-contents"><table class="table" summary="Link macros">
+<colgroup>
+<col>
+<col>
+</colgroup>
+<thead><tr>
+<th>
+ <p>
+ Macro name
+ </p>
+ </th>
+<th>
+ <p>
+ Effect
+ </p>
+ </th>
+</tr></thead>
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ <span class="bold"><strong>BOOST_STACKTRACE_LINK</strong></span>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ Disable header-only build and require linking with shared or static
+ library that contains the tracing implementation. If <span class="bold"><strong>BOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK</strong></span>
+ is defined, then link with shared library.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ <span class="bold"><strong>BOOST_STACKTRACE_DYN_LINK</strong></span>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ Disable header-only build and require linking with shared library
+ that contains tracing implementation.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+</table></div>
+</div>
+<br class="table-break"><p>
+ In header only mode library could be tuned by macro. If one of the link macro
+ from above is defined, you have to manually link with one of the libraries:
+ </p>
+<div class="table">
+<a name="stacktrace.configuration_and_build.libconfig"></a><p class="title"><b>Table&#160;37.2.&#160;Config</b></p>
+<div class="table-contents"><table class="table" summary="Config">
+<colgroup>
+<col>
+<col>
+<col>
+<col>
+<col>
+<col>
+</colgroup>
+<thead><tr>
+<th>
+ <p>
+ Macro name or default
+ </p>
+ </th>
+<th>
+ <p>
+ Library
+ </p>
+ </th>
+<th>
+ <p>
+ Effect
+ </p>
+ </th>
+<th>
+ <p>
+ Platforms
+ </p>
+ </th>
+<th>
+ <p>
+ Uses debug information <a href="#ftn.stacktrace.configuration_and_build.f0" class="footnote" name="stacktrace.configuration_and_build.f0"><sup class="footnote">[a]</sup></a>
+ </p>
+ </th>
+<th>
+ <p>
+ Uses dynamic exports information <a href="#ftn.stacktrace.configuration_and_build.f1" class="footnote" name="stacktrace.configuration_and_build.f1"><sup class="footnote">[b]</sup></a>
+ </p>
+ </th>
+</tr></thead>
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><em>default for MSVC</em></span> / <span class="bold"><strong>BOOST_STACKTRACE_USE_WINDBG</strong></span>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ <span class="bold"><strong>boost_stacktrace_windbg</strong></span>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ Uses COM to show debug info.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ Windows
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ yes
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ no
+ </p>
+ </td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ <span class="emphasis"><em>default other platforms</em></span>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ <span class="bold"><strong>boost_stacktrace_basic</strong></span>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ Uses compiler intrinsics to collect stacktrace and if possible <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">dladdr</span></code>
+ to show information about the symbol. Requires linking with <span class="bold"><strong>libdl</strong></span> library on POSIX platforms.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ Not MSVC compiler on POSIX or Windows
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ no
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ yes
+ </p>
+ </td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ <span class="bold"><strong>BOOST_STACKTRACE_USE_WINDBG_CACHED</strong></span>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ <span class="bold"><strong>boost_stacktrace_windbg_cached</strong></span>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ Uses COM to show debug info and caches COM instances in TLS for better
+ performance. Useful only for cases when traces are gathered very
+ often. <a href="#ftn.stacktrace.configuration_and_build.f2" class="footnote" name="stacktrace.configuration_and_build.f2"><sup class="footnote">[c]</sup></a>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ Windows
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ yes
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ no
+ </p>
+ </td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ <span class="bold"><strong>BOOST_STACKTRACE_USE_BACKTRACE</strong></span>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ <span class="bold"><strong>boost_stacktrace_backtrace</strong></span>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ Requires linking with <span class="bold"><strong>libdl</strong></span> on POSIX
+ and <span class="bold"><strong>libbacktrace</strong></span> libraries. <span class="bold"><strong>libbacktrace</strong></span> is probably already installed
+ in your system, or built into your compiler.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Otherwise (if you are a <span class="bold"><strong>MinGW</strong></span> user
+ for example) it can be downloaded <a href="https://github.com/ianlancetaylor/libbacktrace" target="_top">from
+ here</a> or <a href="https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/tree/master/libbacktrace" target="_top">from
+ here</a>.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ GCC/MinGW/Clang... on POSIX or Windows
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ yes
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ yes
+ </p>
+ </td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ <span class="bold"><strong>BOOST_STACKTRACE_USE_ADDR2LINE</strong></span>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ <span class="bold"><strong>boost_stacktrace_addr2line</strong></span>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ Use <span class="bold"><strong>addr2line</strong></span> program to retrieve
+ stacktrace. Requires linking with <span class="bold"><strong>libdl</strong></span>
+ library and <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">fork</span></code>
+ system call. Macro <span class="bold"><strong>BOOST_STACKTRACE_ADDR2LINE_LOCATION</strong></span>
+ must be defined to the absolute path to the addr2line executable
+ if it is not located in /usr/bin/addr2line.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ GCC/MinGW/Clang... on POSIX
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ yes
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ yes
+ </p>
+ </td>
+</tr>
+<tr>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ <span class="bold"><strong>BOOST_STACKTRACE_USE_NOOP</strong></span>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ <span class="bold"><strong>boost_stacktrace_noop</strong></span>
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ Use this if you wish to disable backtracing. <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">stacktrace</span><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">size</span><span class="special">()</span></code> with that macro always returns
+ 0.
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ All
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ no
+ </p>
+ </td>
+<td>
+ <p>
+ no
+ </p>
+ </td>
+</tr>
+</tbody>
+<tbody class="footnotes"><tr><td colspan="6">
+<div id="ftn.stacktrace.configuration_and_build.f0" class="footnote"><p><a href="#stacktrace.configuration_and_build.f0" class="para"><sup class="para">[a] </sup></a>
+ This will provide more readable backtraces with <span class="bold"><strong>source
+ code locations</strong></span> if the binary is built with debug information.
+ </p></div>
+<div id="ftn.stacktrace.configuration_and_build.f1" class="footnote"><p><a href="#stacktrace.configuration_and_build.f1" class="para"><sup class="para">[b] </sup></a>
+ This will provide readable function names in backtrace for functions
+ that are exported by the binary. Compiling with <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">-</span><span class="identifier">rdynamic</span></code> flag, without <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">-</span><span class="identifier">fisibility</span><span class="special">=</span><span class="identifier">hidden</span></code>
+ or marking functions as exported produce a better stacktraces.
+ </p></div>
+<div id="ftn.stacktrace.configuration_and_build.f2" class="footnote"><p><a href="#stacktrace.configuration_and_build.f2" class="para"><sup class="para">[c] </sup></a>
+ This may affect other components of your program that use COM,
+ because this mode calls the <code class="computeroutput"><span class="identifier">CoInitializeEx</span><span class="special">(</span><span class="number">0</span><span class="special">,</span> <span class="identifier">COINIT_MULTITHREADED</span><span class="special">)</span></code> on first use and does not call
+ <code class="computeroutput"><span class="special">::</span><span class="identifier">CoUninitialize</span><span class="special">();</span></code> until the current thread is
+ destroyed.
+ </p></div>
+</td></tr></tbody>
+</table></div>
+</div>
+<br class="table-break"><p>
+ <span class="bold"><strong>Examples:</strong></span>
+ </p>
+<div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; ">
+<li class="listitem">
+ if you wish to switch to more powerful implementation on Clang/MinGW and
+ <span class="bold"><strong>BOOST_STACKTRACE_LINK</strong></span> is defined, you
+ just need link with "<span class="bold"><strong>-lboost_stacktrace_backtrace
+ -ldl -lbacktrace</strong></span>" or "<span class="bold"><strong>-lboost_stacktrace_addr2line
+ -ldl</strong></span>"
+ </li>
+<li class="listitem">
+ if you wish to disable backtracing and you use the library in header only
+ mode, you just need to define <span class="bold"><strong>BOOST_STACKTRACE_USE_NOOP</strong></span>
+ for the whole project
+ </li>
+<li class="listitem">
+ if you wish to disable backtracing and <span class="bold"><strong>BOOST_STACKTRACE_LINK</strong></span>
+ is defined, you just need link with <span class="bold"><strong>-lboost_stacktrace_noop</strong></span>
+ </li>
+</ul></div>
+</div>
+<table xmlns:rev="http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~gregod/boost/tools/doc/revision" width="100%"><tr>
+<td align="left"></td>
+<td align="right"><div class="copyright-footer">Copyright &#169; 2016, 2017 Antony Polukhin<p>
+ Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
+ file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt" target="_top">http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)
+ </p>
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