Re: [Boost-users] Missing libs

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Missing libs
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-28 15:52:49

AMDG

On 02/28/2018 08:36 AM, Tim Burgess via Boost-users wrote:
> 
> 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:
> 

--build-type=complete will build all variants.
The default is to build only the most common.

> 
> .\b2 link=static
> 
> This still does not generate the required file - where am I going wrong,
> please?
> 

It's runtime-link=static (link=static controls whether Boost
is built as a static library or a dll.).

To build a specific library by name, you can use:
b2 --build-type=complete libboost_filesystem-vc141-mt-s-x64-1_67.lib

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

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe