Re: [Boost-build] Link troubles.

From: Juergen Hunold (juergen.hunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-17 04:46:44

Hi !

On Donnerstag 17 Mai 2007, Michael Marcin wrote:
> LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file
> 'bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi\zlib.lib'
>        qDebug("hier");

> Looking in the bin\msvc-8.0\debug\threading-multi directory I see
> zlib.dll, zlib.dll.manifest, zlib.dll.rsp, and zlib.pdb.  So it looks
> like it built the debug zlib just fine but didn't output an import
> library.
>
> I think I'm missing something but I don't know what.

That's the ms-linker being helpfull. You build a dll but don't export 
any symbols, so it does not create a .lib file. Look at the zlib 
sources for the export MACRO (usually something like "ZLIB_EXPORT" or 
similar) and add it as <define>.
Or build a static library...

Yours,

Jürgen
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