Re: [Boost-users] [Boost][serialization] link problems with MSVC.NET/nobjam

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-11-03 11:38:39

We run the test suite for both the static and dll versions of the 
serialization library.  They work the same. you could do this yourself by 
invokeing runtest.bat from within the libs/serialization/test directory.

>From the information you've given it sounds to me that there is a mismatch 
somewhere between the ABI in your project and the libraries.  I'm guessing 
your using the VC 7.1 IDE to build.  If so you might look into the directory 
VC7IDE in libs/serialization and compare the project properties with those 
projects with your own.

Note, that I build all the tests in release mode as well as debug mode and 
everything builds and executes without problem on all compilers except for 
borland.

Robert Ramey

Topi Mäenpää wrote:
> 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-