Re: [Boost-users] autolinking problem with iostream bzip2 and zlibfilters -- DLLs needed for some reason? (updated)

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] autolinking problem with iostream bzip2 and zlibfilters -- DLLs needed for some reason? (updated)
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-03 01:22:39

John Maddock wrote:

>> now, here is the problem.. on every machien I usually do this on, it
>> "autolinks" these libraries.. I have just started to build my code on
>> a new machine, and for some reason it is not autolinking them. So to
>> get my code to work I have to manually add them to my dependencies
>> list and also add the directory where they are located.
> 
> You always have to add the directory where they are located.
> 
> Check that neither BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB nor BOOST_IOSTREAMS_NO_LIB are defined
> in your source that includes the iostream header.  You could also try
> defining BOOST_LIB_DIAGNOSTIC which will print out which library is being
> selected for autolinking.
> 
>> Also, I just now noticed that I am required to have the bzip2 and zlib
>> DLLs to run my application, when before I never needed them.
> 
> There should be settings to disable those somewhere, not sure what they are
> though... and you can RTM as well as me ;-;

I believe this matter was resolved on IRC -- by nothing else than rebuilding
boost_iostreams. So, the working theory is that some variables were not set
during initial build.

- Volodya