Re: [Boost-users] [1.34.0] Release Candidate

From: David Klein (dave_chp_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-09 05:02:11

dhruva wrote:
> Hi,
>  I had earlier reported an issue in the built librariy names on win32
> using MSVC. I am using VS.net to build boost.
>  The header file (doing an implicit link calling #pragma "link") tries
> to link to a file with "vc71" but the file has "vc".
>  It is trivial to fix this by editing the "config/auto_link.h" but the
> proble is in the build generating the wrong file names (wrong: based
> on the 1_33_1 version of boost and 1_32 version too).
>
> IMHO, build on win32 using VS.net needs to get fixed before a final
> release or each user will start modifying either the header to look
> for "vc" or modify the build to generate "vc71" or do a manual
> renaming of files to "vc71" (which I have done).
>
> with best regards,
> dhruva
>
> On 5/9/07, Thomas Witt <witt_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> The 1.34.0 release candidate is now available from http://
>> www.boost.org/release/ please give it a try and report any problems
>> to the developer list or directly to me.
>>
>> The tentative release date is May 11.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Thomas
>>
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>> witt_at_[hidden]
>>
>>
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>
>   
Hi,

try: --toolset=msvc-7.1 when building the libs.
Then the library names are -vc71- instead of -vc-.

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Regards,
dave