RE: [Boost-users] boost 1.30 / date_time / link problem with VC7

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-05-10 09:54:42

On Mon, 10 May 2004 15:41:54 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote
>...
> > From boost, I am using the library built at "My Documents\Visual
> > Studio Projects\boost\libs\date_time\build\bin\libboost_date_time.lib
> > \vc7\debug\runtime-link-dynamic"
> > 
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated...
> 
> You are using the debug DLL version of the date_time library.  In order
> to share a heap with the main program this uses the debug DLL version
> of the C++ run-time library (MSVCRTD) and requires that the main
> program uses it too.  You must either:
> 
> (1) Build and use the debug multi-threaded static version of the
>     date_time library.
> (2) Use the debug DLL versions of the C++ run-time library and MFC
>     in your main program.

For whatever reason it didn't hit me before that he is using boost 1.30.  I
don't think the error you are seeing is this *yet*, but he dynamic library
stuff doesn't work correctly in 1.30 (symbols not exported correctly).  So I
recommend shifting to the static library version of the library.

Jeff