I am having a little trouble getting boost to load the static thread library. For some reason it wants to load the dynamic library instead of the static boost_thread library. Everything compiles and builds, but I get a message that it can't find the shared library, when I really want it linked statically. (see below) What did I miss? Thanks much for any help, Graham Boost version: 1.33.1 OS: Linux 2.6 Compiler: GCC 4.1.1 Compiler command line (debug): g++ -I/home/quirk/dev/libraries/boost_1_33_1/ -O0 -g3 -Wall -c -fmessage-length=0 -pthread -MMD -MP -MF"main.d" -MT"main.d" -o"main.o" "../main.cpp" Linker command line (debug): g++ -L/home/quirk/dev/libraries/boost_1_33_1/stage/lib -o"ManagedMakeProject" ./main.o -lpthread -lboost_thread-gcc-mt-d-1_33_1 Code: #include <cstdio> #include "boost/thread/thread.hpp" void foo() { printf("Hello MT World\n"); } int main(int argc, char* argv[]) { printf("Hello World\n"); boost::thread aThread(foo); aThread.join(); return 0; } Output: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_thread-gcc-mt-d-1_33_1.so.1.33.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ____________________________________________________________________________________ Have a burning question? Go to www.Answers.yahoo.com and get answers from real people who know.