[Boost-users] How to choose which library version to choose?

Subject: [Boost-users] How to choose which library version to choose?
From: Michael Kragh Pedersen (m_kragh_pedersen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-09 09:12:14

I have downloaded and built the Boost library, as according to these instructions:

http://theseekersquill.wordpress.com/2010/08/24/howto-boost-mingw/

I need to use the serialization library, so I looked at the stage\lib folder, only to 16 different library files! Some are named mt, some sd, some s or d, and some a combination thereof, all this following libboost_serialization-mgw48. Some are dll files and some are a files.

I tried using –lboost_serialization, as I have seen this mentioned on a lot of forums, but Eclipse says it can’t find that library. So how on Earth am I supposed to figure out which of the many files to link to?!