[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #12421: Even with BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB defined, VS14 linker looks for mt-s variant

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #12421: Even with BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB defined, VS14 linker looks for mt-s variant
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-08-29 22:50:00

#12421: Even with BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB defined, VS14 linker looks for mt-s variant
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 Reporter:  emonette123@…   |       Type:  Bugs
   Status:  new             |  Milestone:  To Be Determined
Component:  Building Boost  |    Version:  Boost 1.61.0
 Severity:  Problem         |   Keywords:
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 We do not use the default library names for boost.  In fact, we only
 compile filesystem, system and date_time libraries.  We define
 BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB, compile with b2 and rename the libraries to
 filesystem.lib, system.lib and date_time.lib for a static link with static
 linkage to standard lib.  This worked for us for many Boost lib versions
 and different Visual Studio versions.
 With Boost 1.61 and Visual Studio 2015 (vc14), we receive the following
 error when linking a project to our renamed filesystem.lib for example:

 LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_filesystem-
 vc140-mt-s-1_61.lib'

 No matter if we even specify --layout=sytem as a build option to generate
 libboost_filesystem.lib:  we still get a linkage error on the complete
 -vc140-mt-s-1_61 variant.

 Leaving both renamed libraries and boost named libraries in our library
 path fixes the issue.

 Why is Visual Studio 14.0 linker still using autolink features with boost
 1.61, even though we specify boost not to use autolink (ie, we define
 BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB).

 We also get a macro redefinition warning when we define BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB
 in user.hpp header.  It looks like it is correctly defined, but linker
 will still look for the -vc140-mt-s-1_61 variant of the library.

 I tried about all possibilities when compiling with b2, to no avail.

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/12421>
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