[Boost-users] Boost - How does VC know what to link ?

Subject: [Boost-users] Boost - How does VC know what to link ?
From: Kerry, Richard (richard.kerry_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-03-22 05:59:29

Can someone explain (*) how Visual Studio gets to know which lib file to link with ?

I see an entry (Auto-Linking under point 6 on the Getting Started page) which says that it does this, but I'd like to know how.
I want to be sure that once I've started using Boost in a project then any of my colleagues building the same project will get the libraries pice-up properly.

(*) or point me to the code that does it.
Is is some sort of compiler directive that controls it ?

It's Visual Studio 6 that I'm using, but I expect it's the same for others.

Richard Kerry
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