Re: [Boost-users] MSVC static linking with Boost

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] MSVC static linking with Boost
From: Igor R (boost.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-02-14 11:00:27

> The team I work with is working on producing a Boost.Python library.  Most
> of the Boost stuff we’re using are header only, however, there is a couple
> of compiled library usages as well (e.g. regex).  How can we make certain
> that the library we’re building is statically linked with the stuff we’re
> using from Boost?  This way, we don’t have to deploy any other DLLs but our
> own.  I’ve gathered, from Google and another post here, that most of this
> magic happens at compile time with auto-linking.  However, this isn’t going
> all the way.  I continually see Intellisense errors in my Visual Studio
> output window telling me that mixing static and dynamic Boost libraries is a
> bad idea (or something similar).

Intellisense can be wrong. Do you see that your dll really has boost
dlls in the dependency list (using dumpbin or similar tool)?