Try one of the /VERBOSE options on the linker’s command line will get you this information, I cannot remember which is the most painless one though.

From the command line: /VERBOSE[:{CLR|ICF|INCR|LIB|REF|SAFESEH|UNUSEDLIBS}]

/VERBOSE:LIB

You can find this under Properties, Linker, General, Show Progress

You can also set directly Properties, Linker, Command Line

As I recall just /VERBOSE:LIB should generate a lot of output about which library is pulled in (and hopefully by which other library).

Just the /VERBOSE output generate a huge amount of output (minimize the window and open with text editor later or it will be a long wait).

- Mark

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From: Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Max
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 5:49 AM
To: boost-users
Subject: [Boost-users] Project linking problem with boost

Hello,

The problem here relates to boost, but I'm aware it may of more general nature rather than boost specific.

I had a weird problem with my project. It has a bunch of dependencies including many of the boost libraries. My platform is: Win7SP1 + VS2008SP1 + boost1.39.0.

I have properly set the VC++ directories for both include and lib files pointing to the boost folder (1.39.0) and of course those for other dependencies. But I got the following message when I built the project:

1>Linking to GSL lib

1>Linking to lib file: CGAL-vc90-mt.lib

1>Linking to lib file: libboost_date_time-vc80-mt-1_34.lib

1>Linking to lib file: libboost_regex-vc80-mt-1_34.lib

I don't know why VS was attempting to link to libs of boost 1.34.0 built with VC80 (I'm using VC 90 - VS2008)

Could anybody please give me some hints about this problem or where the message like "Linking to lib file: ..." came from?

Thanks.

Best regards,

Max