Re: [Boost-users] unresolved external when building Boost.Thread

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] unresolved external when building Boost.Thread
From: Kenny Riddile (kfriddile_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-08-25 13:00:06

Kenneth Riddile wrote:
> OS - Windows7 x64
> compiler - MSVC9
> Boost version - 1.44
> 
> Running the following command fails to build the thread library with the 
> following error:
> 
> bjam variant=release link=shared threading=multi runtime-link=shared 
> --layout=tagged install
> 
> thread.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol 
> "__declspec(dllimport) pu
> blic: __thiscall boost::gregorian::greg_month::greg_month(unsigned 
> short)" (__im
> p_??0greg_month_at_gregorian@boost@@QAE_at_G@Z) referenced in function 
> "public: __this
> call boost::gregorian::date::date(enum 
> boost::date_time::special_values)" (??0da
> te_at_gregorian@boost@@QAE_at_W4special_values_at_date_time_at_2@@Z)
> bin.v2\libs\thread\build\msvc-9.0\release\threading-multi\boost_thread-vc90-mt-1 
> 
> _44.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals
> 
> Removing "--layout=tagged" from the command results in the thread 
> library building successfully, but of course that isn't what I want :)

Nevermind...this was actually caused by adding 
"define=BOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK" to the build command instead of just 
"define=BOOST_TEST_DYN_LINK" which is really all I needed...my mistake.