I want to build the Filesystem Library on Windows so that it statically links to my code at runtime.<br>I use the following statement on the command line to invoke bjam:<br><span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br>

bjam release --with-filesystem --toolset=msvc-7.1</span> <span style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">link=static<br>

<br>This builds only 1 library: libboost_filesystem-vc80-mt-1_36.lib<br>It does not build the System Library which Filesystem depends on.<br><br>I&#39;m very much new to the Boost paradigm.<br>Why can I not build the System Library statically?<br>

Do I really need the System Library and its error handling features?<br>Will
the Filesystem Library need the System Library or is the System Library
just an option to handle errors and not essential at runtime?</span><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 0pt;"></blockquote>