C++ Cookbook

Acknowledgments

From D. Ryan Stephens

The most important people I have to thank are my wife, Daphne, and my children, Jesse, Pascal, and Chloe. Writing a book is hard work, but above all it is time-consuming work, and my family has been supportive and has tolerated my late nights in the office in the best possible way.

I also have to thank the technical reviewers, who made this book better than it otherwise would have been. As with so many things, it is always helpful to have a second, third, and fourth set of eyes look over something for clarity and correctness. Many thanks to Dan Saks, Uwe Schnitker, and David Theese.

Finally, I have to thank my editor, Jonathan Gennick, for his advice, which was mostly grammatical, frequently stylistic, occasionally psychologically supportive, and always good.

From Christopher Diggins

I wish to thank Kris Unger, Jonathan Turkanis, Jonathan Gennick, and Ryan Stephens for their helpful suggestions and critiques, and making me a better writer for it. A very special thanks to my wife Mélanie Charbonneau for brightening my life.

From Jonathan Turkanis

Because my chapters touched on so many different commerical products and open source projects—and because I had so many questions about each of them—I have an unusually large number of people to thank.

Let me first thank Ron Liechty, Howard Hinnant, and the engineers at Metrowerks for answering every conceivable question and for providing me with several versions of CodeWarrior.

I’d also like to thank the Boost.Build developers, especially Vladimir Prus, Rene Rivera, and David Abrahams, not just for answering my questions but also for putting together the Boost build system, which was the single most important source of information for Chapter 1.

Thanks also to Walter Bright at Digital Mars; Greg Comeau at Comeau Computing; P. J. Plauger at Dinkumware; Colin Laplace at Bloodshed Software; Ed Mulroy and Pavel Vozenilek at the borland.public.* newsgroups; Arnaud Debaene and Igor Tandetnik at microsoft.public.vc.languages; Earnie Boyd, Greg Chicares, Adib Taraben, John Vandenberg, and Lennart Borgman at the MinGW/MSYS mailing list; Christopher Faylor, Larry Hall, Igor Pechtchanski, Joshua Daniel Franklin, and Dave Korn at the Cygwin list; Mike Stump and Geoffrey Keating at the GCC developers list; Mark Goodhand at DecisionSoft; and David N. Bertoni at apache.org.

I’m also indebted to Robert Mecklenburg, whose book Managing Projects with GNU make, Third Edition (O’Reilly) provided the foundation for my treatment of GNU make.

In addition, Vladimir Prus, Matthew Wilson, Ryan Stephens, and Christopher Diggins provided detailed criticism of early drafts of the manuscript.

Finally, I must thank my editor, Jonathan Gennick, my wife, Jennifer, and my Grandfather, Louis S. Goodman, who taught me how to write.