Re: [boost] Problem with bjam and external library

From: Steven Weiß (steven11_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-03 17:29:08

Hi Dave,
thanks for your reply.

David Abrahams wrote:

>Steven Weiß <steven11_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>  
>
>>Hallo,
>>for Win32GUI Lib I need to link shlwapi.lib. Since the library is built 
>>with bjam I tried to follow the advice
>>given at http://lists.boost.org/boost/2004/05/6103.php and searched a 
>>bit in the internet. unfortunately it
>>doesn't work - when building Win32GUI I still get Linker errors 
>>(SHCreateStreamOnFile() can't be resolved)
>>    
>>
>
>Only one symbol can't be resolved?  That's a likely indicator of a
>mismatch between the library headers and the library file itself.
>
>  
>
The header is correct - I'm only using this function of the lib. And 
when I'm compiling in
VC it links correctly.

>>here is the relevant code of the jamfile:
>>
>>...
>>lib win32gui
>>    : ../../src/$(SOURCES).cpp   
>>    : [ common-names ]
>>     
>>      <include>../../..
>>      <define>WIN32GUI_NO_LIB
>>      <define>WIN32GUI_BUILDING_LIB     
>>      <threading>multi
>>      <library-path>"C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 
>>2003\Vc7\PlatformSDK\lib"
>>    
>>
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>  
>
>>    : debug release
>>      <debug><find-library>shlwapi<runtime-link>static
>>      <release><find-library>shlwapi<runtime-link>static
>>    
>>
>
>Those last two lines should be in the previous section.  They describe
>requirements, not which variants should be built by default.
>
>I assume the library file is called
>
>  shlwapi.lib
>
>and located in
>
>  C:\Programme\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\Vc7\PlatformSDK\lib
>
>??
>
>  
>
That's right, shlwapi.lib is in the directory. I tried <find-library> to 
be in the previous section before but it
didn't work either...do you have some ideas?

btw how can I change my name in the mailinglist? I forgot to write "ss" 
instead of the German umlaut-s...

mfg Steven