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Subject: Re: [Boost-build] another simple boost build failure
From: Jürgen Hunold (jhunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-25 13:20:58


Hi Ronny,

On Thursday, 25. October 2012 12:55:10 you wrote:
> thanks a lot. I did not know that one has to rebuild everything after
> changing the requirements. It seems to work now.

Good to hear that everything is up and running.

> It is true, I did not read the starting guide thoroughly, I'll do that now
> :-).

Good, too ;-)

> I am a bit confused about the library being a static library. Shouldn't it
> be "boost_filesystem-vc90-mt-gds-1_50.lib" instead of
> "boost_filesystem-vc90-mt-gd-1_50.lib" then? Or did I get it wrong?

Ah, that is the "s" for static runtime. AFAIK the last msvc to provide a
static runtime was 7.1. Don't confuse "static library" with "static runtime
libraries".
The static runtime opens up a new can of worms...

Yours,

Jürgen

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