OK, I learned about auto_link and the #pragma's in the headers that automagically locate the correct .lib, but they aren't working. The linker now complains about not being able to find libboost_program_options-vc90-mt-s-1_40.lib, whereas I have only *-vc100-* - strange, since I built boost from the exact same (Visual C 9.0) terminal window right before trying to build my app. The specific error is: LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_program_options-vc90-mt-s-1_40.lib' Any ideas? Thanks in advance. On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Yang Zhang wrote:

I'm building the below tiny boost app with the WDK (note that I'm *not* building a driver or anything kernel-mode, just a regular userland C++ app), but I'm getting the following errors when linking with the boost libraries that I built earlier using bootstrap and .\bjam (from the same terminal window). Anyone know what the problem is, and how I might fix or work around it?

C:\exp>more exp.cpp #pragma warning(disable: 4512) #include int __cdecl main() {  boost::program_options::options_description desc("Allowed options");  return 0; }

C:\exp>more sources TARGETNAME=exp TARGETTYPE=PROGRAM

USE_MSVCRT=1 USE_STL=1 USE_NATIVE_EH=1

MSC_WARNING_LEVEL=/W4 /WX

_NT_TARGET_VERSION= $(_NT_TARGET_VERSION_WINXP)

INCLUDES=..\boost_1_40_0

SOURCES=exp.cpp

UMTYPE=console UMBASE=0x400000

TARGETLIBS = $(SDK_LIB_PATH)\ws2_32.lib ..\boost_1_40_0\stage\lib\libboost_progr am_options-vc100-mt.lib

C:\exp>build BUILD: Compile and Link for x86 BUILD: Loading c:\winddk\7600.16385.0\build.dat... BUILD: Computing Include file dependencies: BUILD: Start time: Wed Oct 14 17:34:23 2009 BUILD: Examining c:\exp directory for files to compile.    c:\exp Invalidating OACR warning log for 'root:x86chk' BUILD: Saving c:\winddk\7600.16385.0\build.dat... BUILD: Compiling and Linking c:\exp directory Configuring OACR for 'root:x86chk' - <OACR on> _NT_TARGET_VERSION SET TO WINXP Linking Executable - objchk_win7_x86\i386\exp.exe 1>errors in directory c:\exp 1>link : error LNK1218: warning treated as error; no output file generated BUILD: Finish time: Wed Oct 14 17:34:44 2009 BUILD: Done

   1 executable built - 1 Warning - 1 Error

C:\exp>more *wrn 1>warnings in directory c:\exp 1>c:\exp\libboost_program_options-vc100-mt.lib(options_description.obj) : warning LNK4217: locally defined symbol ??1?$basic_streambuf@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@UAE@XZ (public: virtual __thiscall std::basic_streambuf::~basic_streambuf(void)) imported in function "public: virtual __thiscall std::basic_stringbuf

...

::~basic_stringbuf(void)" (??1?$basic_stringbuf@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@UAE@XZ) -- Yang Zhang http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/

-- Yang Zhang http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/