Re: [Boost-users] My First Boost Program At Work With Visual Studio

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] My First Boost Program At Work With Visual Studio
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-12-11 19:34:39

AMDG

Dave Schwartz wrote:
> First, my 2 lines of appreciation to the community.
> I am new to boost library and I must tell, I have been enjoying myself
> going through various boost libraries and running sample programs
> provided.
> Must say all this has been quite straightforward and given me a
> headstart and confidence in learning the libraries.
> I have been trying the samples on my home PC with Visual Studio 2008
> with the libraries provided by boostpro 1.4 installation. No issues.
>
>
> Yesterday I tried using the serialization library at work and wanted
> to serialize a simple class to an XML file and de-serialize it. This
> example worked on my home PC (visual studio 2008).
> On my work PC that has visual studio 2005, the compilation went fine
> but the program ended up generating a library as in
> InventoryConfig.lib, instead of the regular InventoryConfig.exe.
>
> Apparently it looks like the output type of the program changed from
> .exe to .lib on visual studio 2005 on my work computer.
>
> When I remove the serialization code, the output type goes back to .exe
> I copied the same code back to my home pc and with visual studio 2008
> I get the correct result and the output type remains an executable as
> set initially while creating the project.
>
> Can't seem to figure out what project properties are getting changed
> on VS2005 when I use the library.
> I am not sure where to look or how to go about fixing this issue.
> Appreciate your help.

Does this effect depend on #include of serialization headers or on actual
use of serialization?  Can you post a minimal example that causes this
problem?

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe