I wrote a serial port static library using boost::asio. I'm trying to use this library from another project I'm building as a dll, but this second project fails to link: it wants to link with Boost's sytem library.
I used PIMPL to remove all boost #includes from my class header, and also tried setting Visual Studio's Link Library Dependencies option set to Yes in my static library. Neither approach worked.
I know I can solve this by adding the boost binary directory to the library directories for my dll project, but I'd like to avoid that. The way I see it, only my static library should have a Boost link dependency.
I'm using Visual Studio 2012, targetting to Windows XP (v110_xp toolset), and Boost 1.53.0.
I asked about this at Stack Overflow if anyone's interested: