Re: [boost] [RC_1_34_0] MSVC 8.0 link looking for lib*

From: Dean Michael Berris (mikhailberis_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-02 01:11:01

On 7/2/06, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> It used to be that the default build of Boost attempted to build both
> single and multi thread variants, and also static and dynamic, of
> libraries. But it seems this is no longer the case.
>

It seems that way too to me -- but it might be something with regards
to the toolset I'm using, and the configuration of BBv2 for MSVC,
though I don't have a way of verifying otherwise right now.

Another thing I noticed with regards to BBv2 is that even if I'm using
msvc, the libraries being searched for in the linking phase still
contain the "lib" prefix (a convention in the Unix build system using
the GNU toolset). It's either the boost libraries aren't being built
with the "lib" filename prefix in Windows, or the link configuration
is looking for the wrong file. The specific use case will be for
unit-tests:

unit-test my_unit_test : my_unit_test.cpp ;

The linker complains this:

1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
'libboost_unit_test_framework-vc80-mt-gd-1_34.lib'

when the library built is just named
"boost_unit_test_framework-vc80-mt-gd-1_34.lib" without the "lib"
prefix.

It might be a misconfiguration on the "unit-test" rule, or something
else, though I haven't checked yet myself.

> You can force doing a build that has all the various variants with
> something like:
>
> bjam -v2 install
> msvc-8.0/variant=debug,release/runtime-link=shared,static/threading=single,multi
>
> I'm also trying to figure out how to make that the default again :-)
>
> HTH.
>

Yup, the above tip helps. :)

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