Re: [Boost-users] statically linked boost libs with VS2010 missing ?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] statically linked boost libs with VS2010 missing ?
From: Lars Viklund (zao_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-08-08 03:01:20

On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 10:21:41AM +1000, trevor_at_[hidden] wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to boost, and I'm trying to compile a windows console app  
> statically so the end user doesn't need vcredist.
>
> I've changed my code generation options to use /mt (static  
> multithreaded) instead of dynamic multithreaded, but the linker cannot  
> find any libs with libboost*-sgd*.lib (ie.any static boost libs), and  
> they certainly don't exist on my computer. I've performed a --clean-all  
> and recompiled boost using "b2 link=static", but the libs are still  
> missing, even though the compile seems to work fine - and the generated  
> libs are actually following the dynamic naming convention, not the  
> static convention.
>
> Is this some MSVC toolchain issue ? Is there another option I need to be 
> using for this toolchain ?

link=static makes static-linked Boost libraries (lib- prefix)

runtime-link=static makes libraries linked against
the static runtime (-s-).

Your use case probably wants both static link and runtime-link, as
dynamic linking a Boost that uses a static runtime is pretty much always
a bad thing.

-- 
Lars Viklund | zao_at_[hidden]