Re: [Boost-users] linking and including in visual studio

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] linking and including in visual studio
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-04-26 18:21:26

On 26 Apr 2016 at 16:51, Mark R Stallard wrote:

> I don't recommend that you get too comfortable with this mysteriously
> "correct" build behavior. If you have multiple versions of Boost installed,
> you might not be building with the version you intended. For the time
> being, you could try displaying your full compile and link commands by
> changing "Suppress Startup Banner" to "No" in the property pages
> C/C++ > General and Linker > General.

The OP may be referring to the automatic dependency linking facility 
in MSVC and clang. Boost makes use of it, that's why it may 
"mysteriously" just work.

Niall

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