Re: "Unresolved externals" building MSVC 6.0 boost_1_30_0

From: Gennadiy E. Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-06-12 12:11:26

--- In Boost-Users_at_[hidden], "Peter Hug" <yg-boost-
users_at_m...> wrote:
> When trying to build boost_1_30_0 as follows:

Build what?
 
> vcvars32.bat
> bjam "-sTOOLS=msvc"
> 
> I get some link errors:
> 
> cpp_main.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "int 
__cdecl
> cpp_main(i
> nt,char * * const)" (?cpp_main@@YAHHQAPAD_at_Z)
> test_main.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "int 
__cdecl
> test_main
> (int,char * * const)" (?test_main@@YAHHQAPAD_at_Z)
> unit_test_main.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external 
symbol "class
> boost::uni
> t_test_framework::test_suite * __cdecl init_unit_test_suite
(int,char * *
> const)"
> 
> (?
init_unit_test_suite@@YAPAVtest_suite_at_unit_test_framework_at_boost@@HQAP
AD_at_Z)
> 
> And the tool finishes telling me these not so great news:
> 
> ...failed updating 12 targets...
> 
> Well I'm new but after spending two days trying to work out what 
the heck
> goes on, I'm none the wiser!

Above symbols are required by Boos.Test framework. What tests are 
trying to build?

Gennadiy.