Re: [Boost-users] Boost, STLport, and Visual Studio 2005

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-11 05:03:22

> Trying to get Boost 1.33.1 and STLport 5.0.1 to co-exist under
> Micro$oft Visual Studio 2005.  I got them both to apparently compile
> and install okay, but when I attempt a Boost::Serialization test, I
> run into a problem:
>
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> 'libboost_serialization-vc80-mt-gdp-1_33_1.lib'
>
>> From the docs, I indeed find that the "-gdp-" library is
>> non-existent;
> specifically, the 'p' for STLport is missing.  How do I build the
> STLport runtimes?

Unfortunately we don't have a vc8+stlport toolset yet.  Probably the easiest 
way would be to:

1) Define BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB when building your code so that auto-linking is 
suppressed.

2) Build the libraries your interested in from your IDE: for the most part 
they're "just a bunch of sources".

John.