Re: [boost] [RC_1_34_0] Boost.Serialization in BBv2 linking requires different library name

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-19 15:08:25

Dean Michael Berris wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I did a recent export of the Boost RC_1_34_0 from the CVS and built it
> in Windows XP using MSVC 8 (edited user-config.jam to `using msvc`).
> I'm trying to build an application which requires Boost.Serialization
> and Boost.Date_Time, and I get these when I do a bjam --v2 in the
> application source (configured to use BBv2):
> 
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> 'libboost_date_time-vc80-mt-gd-1_34.lib'
> 
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> 'libboost_serialization-vc80-mt-gd-1_34.lib'
> 
> I went into the lib/ directory of MSVC 8 where I set as a prefix to
> `bjam --v2 debug release install ` and saw that I dont have these
> files but noticed that I had most of the libs not containing the '80'
> as in 'vc80'. So instead of the above required files, I see:
> 
> libboost_date_time-vc-mt-gd-1_34.lib
> libboost_serialization-vc-mt-gd-1_34.lib
> 
> Perhaps a bug in the jam files?

Most probably you'd need 

  using msvc : 8.0 ;

in your user-config.jam

- Volodya