Re: [Boost-users] Why "Mixing a dll boost library with a staticruntimeis a really bad idea..."?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Why "Mixing a dll boost library with a staticruntimeis a really bad idea..."?
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-03-15 05:27:25

>> It absolutely *will* cause your program to crash if you do that: the dll 
>> and
>> the application will have different runtime libraries
>
> The OP says he wants to use boost libs as DLLs, but with static
> runtime. Isn't it possible to build boost with "link=shared
> runtime-link=static" ? Then the dll and the application would have the
> same runtime libraries.

No they wouldn't: or at least they would have *different instances* of the 
same code, with all the same problems.

John.