Hello! being a beginner in C++ and boost I set up the stuff for use with VC++ 2005 Express just today. After some problems I finally managed to get it link, but it's still not fully the way I want. There are three libs: boost...dll, libboost...lib and libboost...s...lib. My questions: -What's the difference between the second and the third one? -Why does building with the IDE link against the second and building on the console (/ link /LIBPATH:...) link against the third type? I looked into auto_link.hpp and the IDE seems to set _DLL but boost doesn't define BOOST_DYN_LINK. But I can't find out why. This leads to question 3: -How to link so the dll will be used? That questions might be a good deal compiler specific but since auto_link.hpp is involved I hope here's still the right place to ask. Thank you in advance! AJ Martin