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+//  ndnboost/system/config.hpp  -----------------------------------------------------------//
+
+//  Copyright Beman Dawes 2003, 2006
+
+//  Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying
+//  file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+
+//  See http://www.boost.org/libs/system for documentation.
+
+#ifndef NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_CONFIG_HPP                  
+#define NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_CONFIG_HPP
+
+#include <ndnboost/config.hpp>
+#include <ndnboost/system/api_config.hpp>  // for NDNBOOST_POSIX_API or NDNBOOST_WINDOWS_API
+
+// This header implements separate compilation features as described in
+// http://www.boost.org/more/separate_compilation.html
+
+//  normalize macros  ------------------------------------------------------------------//
+
+#if !defined(NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_DYN_LINK) && !defined(NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_STATIC_LINK) \
+  && !defined(NDNBOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK) && !defined(NDNBOOST_ALL_STATIC_LINK)
+# define NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_STATIC_LINK
+#endif
+
+#if defined(NDNBOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK) && !defined(NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_DYN_LINK)
+# define NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_DYN_LINK 
+#elif defined(NDNBOOST_ALL_STATIC_LINK) && !defined(NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_STATIC_LINK)
+# define NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_STATIC_LINK 
+#endif
+
+#if defined(NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_DYN_LINK) && defined(NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_STATIC_LINK)
+# error Must not define both NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_DYN_LINK and NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_STATIC_LINK
+#endif
+
+//  enable dynamic or static linking as requested --------------------------------------//
+
+#if defined(NDNBOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK) || defined(NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_DYN_LINK)
+# if defined(NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_SOURCE)
+#   define NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_DECL NDNBOOST_SYMBOL_EXPORT
+# else 
+#   define NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_DECL NDNBOOST_SYMBOL_IMPORT
+# endif
+#else
+# define NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_DECL
+#endif
+
+//  enable automatic library variant selection  ----------------------------------------// 
+
+#if !defined(NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_SOURCE) && !defined(NDNBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB) && !defined(NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_NO_LIB)
+//
+// Set the name of our library, this will get undef'ed by auto_link.hpp
+// once it's done with it:
+//
+#define NDNBOOST_LIB_NAME ndnboost_system
+//
+// If we're importing code from a dll, then tell auto_link.hpp about it:
+//
+#if defined(NDNBOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK) || defined(NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_DYN_LINK)
+#  define NDNBOOST_DYN_LINK
+#endif
+//
+// And include the header that does the work:
+//
+#include <ndnboost/config/auto_link.hpp>
+#endif  // auto-linking disabled
+
+#endif // NDNBOOST_SYSTEM_CONFIG_HPP
+