[Boost-users] Using the /RTC option without specifying a debug runtime will lead to linker errors

Subject: [Boost-users] Using the /RTC option without specifying a debug runtime will lead to linker errors
From: Sleat, Ben (Ben.Sleat_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-12-28 06:08:57

Hi

I'm trying to track down a very nasty stack corruption bug in my release code and therefore I would like to enabled the Visual C++ RTCs option to enable runtime stack checks in my release build, however when I try to do this I get an "Incompatible build options" error from the boost libraries. Specifically I get this from boosts AutoLink.hpp:

#if defined(__MSVC_RUNTIME_CHECKS) && !defined(_DEBUG)
#  pragma message("Using the /RTC option without specifying a debug runtime will lead to linker errors")
#  pragma message("Hint: go to the code generation options and switch to one of the debugging runtimes")
#  error "Incompatible build options"
#endif

It seems to be suggesting that in order to use /RTC I need to do a Debug build, buts that's exactly what I don't want to do... I need to enable Runtime Checks in the Release build!

Is there any way to get this to work in a release build that uses boost?

Does anyone know the details of the incompatibility? Surely /RTC doesn't require all linked in DLLs also to be compiled with /RTC?

Thanks in advance.

Ben

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