Re: [Boost-users] Sanity check please?: Boost 1_55_0 and building VS2012 static libs?

On 21/05/2014 15:51, g4@novadsp.com wrote:

Revisiting Boost after a long absence. Any thoughts on the following problem(s)?

W7x64 with VS2008,2010,2012 and 2013 installed. VS2012 preferred for regular use.

Built with boostrap and b2

b2 -link=static -runtime-link=static -toolset=msvc-11.0.

I compile a debug test app with /MTd and attempt to link with libboost_system-vc110-mt-gd-1_55.lib which is the only library close to matching the ABI tag specified here : http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#id46

Question: why are you manually linking when that is known is to error prone no matter how careful you are? Why not let auto-linking pick the correct variant for you? John.