David Medine
However, I am revising some Visual Studio projects that use boost and I realized that the path I gave for 'Additional Library Directories' is $(BOOST_ROOT)/lib, but my version of boost hasn't got this directory (it's actually $(BOOST_ROOT)\libs). I then removed all references to boost from 'Additional Library Directories', and 'Additional Include Directories' and the application builds and runs swimmingly.
This leads me to believe, that assigning the BOOST_ROOT environment variable in Windows is the only step that is needed for VS's auto linking magic to link correctly to boost. Am I right here, or is there something I am missing?
In my experience, Visual Studio does not automatically incorporate $BOOST_ROOT (or $(BOOST_ROOT)/lib) into its compile and link search paths. I wouldn't expect it to do that, either. Could it be that you placed a current or previous value of $BOOST_ROOT into other environment variables? I believe that $(IncludePath) and $(LibPath) are used by Microsoft's compile and link tools. Check the values of both. 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. |+| M a r k |+| Mark Stallard Business Application Services Global Business Services Information Technology Raytheon Company (business) 978-436-8487 (cell) 617-331-5443 stallard@raytheon.com 880 Technology Park Drive Billerica, MA 01821 www.raytheon.com This message contains information that may be confidential and privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive mail for the addressee), you should not use, copy or disclose to anyone this message or any information contained in this message. If you have received this message in error, please so advise the sender by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation.
