Re: [Boost-users] [bjam] Building Regex with static runtime linking

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [bjam] Building Regex with static runtime linking
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-06-11 01:22:49

Max wrote:

>> > John, why is icucore target (and other icu targets), have <link>shared
> in
>> > requirements? There's a number of ways to fix the direct issue above,
>> > but I need to know what was the original intention.
>> 
>> Ah, good point: the libraries that ICU supply are DLL's, you can't use
> them
>> with the static msvc runtime as far as I know unless the OP has done a
>> custom build of ICU?
> 
> That's the point. I don't remember exactly what I have done during the
> process
> of installing ICU. But one thing clear is that I haven't modified the
> solution
> configuration that comes with the original package.

And do you have static libs for ICU? If not, then per John statement above,
you cannot use ICU with static runtime.

- Volodya