[Boost-users] Missing libs

Subject: [Boost-users] Missing libs
From: Tim Burgess (tim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-28 15:36:03

Hi,

 

I downloaded the modular Boost master from Git Hub, as per instructions and
built it on Windows as follows:

 

.\Bootstrap

.\b2 headers

.\b2

 

This generated (amongst others) the following libs for boost::filesystem:

 

libboost_filesystem-vc141-mt-gd-x32-1_67.lib

libboost_filesystem-vc141-mt-gd-x64-1_67.lib

libboost_filesystem-vc141-mt-x32-1_67.lib

libboost_filesystem-vc141-mt-x64-1_67.lib

 

I then tried to build a static release X64 version of my application using
VS2017 and got:

 

1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
'libboost_filesystem-vc141-mt-s-x64-1_67.lib'

 

Obviously, I don't have this file, though I had thought that .\b2 was
supposed to build all targets. So, I tried:

 

.\b2 link=static

 

This still does not generate the required file - where am I going wrong,
please?

 

BTW, I have checked that my project's library path points to the appropriate
boost\stage\lib folder.

 

Best wishes.

 

Tim Burgess