Re: [Boost-users] [boost.test] Missing entry point when statically linking

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost.test] Missing entry point when statically linking
From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-07-04 01:02:04

Tan, Tom (Shanghai <TTan <at> husky.ca> writes:

> I am trying to use the static library, because I was under the
> impression that the feature in this variant would be more complete than
> others.

No. This is not the case. You will not be able to have multi-file test modules 
though and you'll pay with some extra compilation time (probably very small on 
modern hardware)

> With VC++ I do not have to explicitly specify the static file name 
> in the command line if it's what you mean.  And if this is the 
> problem, the error would be like
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> 'libboost_unit_test_framework-vc110-mt-s-1_50.lib'

This is done through use of MSVC specific pragmas. Probably they work 
differently in VC11.

Gennadiy