Cheok Yan Cheng wrote:

Hello all,

I just download boost 1.33.1 and I am building using VC++ 7.1.

I am a bit confused on the directory structure of serialization library

(1) \bin\boost\libs\serialization\build\libboost_serialization.lib \bin\boost\libs\serialization\build\libboost_wserialization.lib

May I know the differences among libboost_serialization.lib and libboost_wserialization.lib directory? What is the meaning of 'w'?

'w' identifies libraries for use with wide characters, ie: wchar_t.

(2) \bin\boost\libs\serialization\build\libboost_serialization.lib \bin\boost\libs\serialization\build\boost_serialization.dll

First, I thought libboost_serialization.lib are mean for static library,

Yes.

boost_serialization.dll are mean for dynamic library.

Yes. Which additionally has the corresponding import .lib file.

However, inside the libboost_serialization.lib directory, they are further divided into

libboost_serialization.lib\vc-7_1\release\runtime-link-static\threading-multi libboost_serialization.lib\vc-7_1\release\threading-multi <---- (Does this mean this is a dynamic library since it doesn't contains runtime-link-static??? How about boost_serialization.dll)

You might thoroughly read http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started.html#Build_Install. Where under the Results section, the naming convention is described. Did you run: bjam "-sTOOLS=vc-7_1" install or bjam "-sTOOLS=vc-7_1" stage Both the above gather all of the libs and dlls into a directory with the naming convention described above. The appropriate lib is then automatically linked to your project based on the current compiler settings. Jeff Flinn