Oh... The error message is not exactly straight-forward. I thought something was broken. Shouldn't the Boost.Threads documentation mention this? Such as in the FAQ? It would've saved me quite a bit of time... -----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Ben Hutchings Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 9:48 AM To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: RE: [Boost-users] statically linking to Boost.Threads with msvc7 Aaron Simmons wrote: I've built and installed boost on a WinXp system with VS.Net 2003. I'm trying to use it in a static CRT project. I get the following error whenever I compile: > error C1189: #error : "Mixing a dll boost library with a static runtime is a really bad idea..." I noticed that this is happening because BOOST_DYN_LINK is #defined in config.hpp. Apparently dynamic linking is the default for Boost? Windows does not support registration of clean-up functions for thread-specific storage (TSS, or TLS), but it does notify DLLs when a thread exits and this gives DLLs a chance to clean-up their thread-specific storage. So in order to make TSS work correctly, Boost.Threads is designed to be built only as a DLL on Windows. This means, as the error message says, that you need to use the DLL version of the CRT. Ben.