[Boost-users] [Boost][serialization] link problems with MSVC.NET/no bjam

From: Topi Mäenpää (topi.maenpaa_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-02 09:55:07

Hi,

I have struggled to get the boost libraries link into my application 
with no success so far. I was able to compile most of the demo programs 
with bjam, but it seems that only static linking is used there. I'm 
using the dynamic versions. The libraries compiled fine with MSVC.NET 
7.1. However, whenever I try to link them to an application, every 
symbol seems to be undefined. I turned on the diagnostics to see that 
the automatic linking is happening (with the nonstandard preprocessor 
stuff). I also added the libraries to my project manually without 
success. The funny (?) thing is that the lib file has a definition for 
the "missing" functions, except for one minor difference. This is the 
mangled symbol the linker complains about:

__imp_?save@?$xml_oarchive_impl_at_Vxml_oarchive_at_archive@boost@@@archive_at_boost@@QAEXABV?$basic_string_at_GU?$char_traits_at_G@std@@V?$allocator_at_G@2@@std@@@Z

(Omitting namespaces this one decrypts to 
xml_oarchive_impl<xml_oarchive>::save(basic_string& const))

This is what seems to be in the library:

__imp_?save@?$xml_oarchive_impl_at_Vxml_oarchive_at_archive@boost@@@archive_at_boost@@QAEXABV?$basic_string_at_DU?$char_traits_at_D@std@@V?$allocator_at_D@2@@std@@@Z

The only difference is that the library symbol contains a "D" and the 
linker is looking for "G" in a couple of places. I have found no way of 
going any further. Since the demos are built in debug mode and with 
static libraries, I found no useful information by inspecting the 
commands bjam uses in building them. Everything is just like I have in 
my own project.

I have defined BOOST_SERIALIZATION_DYN_LINK, if you happen to think 
about that. I even managed to link my app with mingw, but got strange 
run-time errors. Everything works fine with gcc on Linux.

Any advice?

-Topi-