Re: [Boost-users] Link errors using Boost & STLPort with VC8

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-16 04:45:32

Jason Ivey wrote:
>> 1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
>> 'stlportstld_x.5.1.lib'
>>
>> The problem is that all of the stlport libraries are named
>> stlportstld.5.1.lib or similar.  I did try to just rename the
>> library to make it match but, of course, I got a boat load of
>> unresolved external linker errors pointing to names such as
>> "stlpdx_std::basic_string."  Looking at a dumpbin output of the
>> actual regex library it is linking against,
>> libboost_regex-vc80-mt-sgdp-1_34_1.lib, I found linker directives of
>> the form:

Not sure, but I believe the debug versions of Boost lib's built against 
STLPort are built with __STL_DEBUG defined, so you will need to do likewise 
when building your application.  Also don't forget that Boost.Regex is "Just 
a bunch of sources" so you could turn auto-linking off (define 
BOOST_REGEX_NO_LIB or BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB) and link against your own build of 
the regex sources (just build all of libs/regex/src/*.cpp into a static 
lib).

HTH, John.