[Boost-users] Linker Problems with VC 7.1/ Boost 1.32 / Stlport 4.61

From: Adrian Grigore (adrian_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-20 14:21:51

Hi,

I've been happily using Boost 1.32 with Visual C++ 7.1 for a few months. 
Now I'd like to switch to STLPort, but can’t get my project to compile 
with STLPort due to linker errors (LNK2019 and LNK2001) in every boost 
library I use (signals, filesystem, thread).

First I installed STLPort and to make sure that it is working properly 
with a dummy (boostless) project.

Then I re-compiled boost with the stlport toolset:

bjam "-sTOOLS=vc-7_1-stlport" "-sSTLPORT_PATH=C:\Programme\Microsoft 
Visual Studio .NET 2003\add-ons" "-sSTLPORT_VERSIONS=4.6.1" 
"-sPYTHON_ROOT=c:/Programme/Python24"  install

Last but not least, I recompiled my project (multithreaded, static 
runtime) which is using boost. I got 9 errors such as these:

WxNonogram error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: __thiscall 
boost::signals::detail::signal_base::signal_base(class 
boost::function2<bool,class boost::any,class boost::any,class 
_STL::allocator<class boost::function_base> > const &,class boost::any 
const &)" 
(??0signal_base_at_detail@signals_at_boost@@QAE_at_ABV?$function2@_NVany_at_boost@@V12_at_V?$allocator_at_Vfunction_base_at_boost@@@_STL@@@3_at_ABVany@3@@Z)

WxNonogram error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "bool __cdecl 
boost::filesystem::native(class _STL::basic_string<char,class 
_STL::char_traits<char>,class _STL::allocator<char> > const &)" 
(?native_at_filesystem@boost@@YA_NABV?$basic_string_at_DV?$char_traits_at_D@_STL@@V?$allocator_at_D@2@@_STL@@@Z) 
referenced in function "public: virtual bool __thiscall 
CMyWxApp3_wxstaticApp::OnInit(void)" 
(?OnInit_at_CMyWxApp3_wxstaticApp@@UAE_NXZ)

I also defined BOOST_LIB_DIAGNOSTIC to see which libraries are linked 
against to. Strangely enough, it seems to link to the correct libraries 
as I got messages such as these:

"Linking to lib file: libboost_signals-vc71-mt-sgdp-1_32.lib"

and it still complains about signals not being resolved after linking.

Unfortunately I do not have a clue on how to proceed. Any help would be 
appreciated. Thanks! :-)

- Adrian