Does the boost.signals2 library need to be built?

Question

My system is having trouble building the boost libraries. I understand that most boost libraries are (fortunately) just headers that do not need to be build (with some excep

Answer 1

Signals is not header-only, signals2 is. But however, signals2 is explicitly developed for thread-safety and if you use boost.thread, this has to be compiled. As far as I know signals2 is not dependent on signals headers.

Answer 2

No, signals2 is header only. See here.