Re: [Boost-users] Compiler wants to link to threading library all of a sudden

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Compiler wants to link to threading library all of a sudden
From: Jeff Flinn (Jeffrey.Flinn_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-02-08 09:39:45

Crispin Cooper wrote:
> Hello Boost users
> 
> I wonder if anyone can help me please.  I have just  updated my boost 
> install to svn head to take advantage of some bugfixes.  Now the 
> compiler complains that it can't find 
> libboost_thread-vc90-mt-sgd-1_49.lib.  But I am not trying to use the 
> threading libraries - my boost includes are:
> 
> #include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>
> #include <boost/pool/pool_alloc.hpp>
> #include <boost/pool/object_pool.hpp>
> #include <boost/static_assert.hpp>
> #include <boost/geometry.hpp>
> #include <boost/geometry/geometries/point_xy.hpp>
> #include <boost/geometry/geometries/polygon.hpp>
> #include <boost/geometry/multi/geometries/multi_point.hpp>
> 
> Have any of these changed such that they require prebuilt libraries?  Or 
> is including boost from the head revision somehow different to a 
> released version in this manner?

Do you mean the 1_49_0 beta based on the lib names above? There was some 
discussion recently on the dev list about this but I don't remember 
which lib[s] were involved. I thought the were going to fix it in the 
1.49 release which is a few weeks away.

Jeff