Re: Fatal Error LNK1104: cannot open file

From: Gavin Lambert (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-07-29 23:59:16

On 30/07/2019 05:11, Cg K wrote:
> 1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 
> 'libboost_regex-vc142-mt-gd-x64-1_71.lib'
> 
> As you can see in my original email post referred to above, I built 
> another simple program based upon a youtube video and on VS2017 and 
> while it compiled in the youtube video, I received a the same linker 
> error, LNK1104 message as well.
> 
> Since the file referred toin the LNK1104 error  has the prefix lib, it 
> appears that VS is looking for a static library.  I built boost as 
> shared from the Develop command line using the command.
> 
> .\bj2 link=shared .

If you're only building the shared libraries, you need to define 
BOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK when building your application (or any other of your 
libraries that uses Boost).