-----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users- bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Sliwa, Przemyslaw (London) Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 10:32 AM To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] STL-PORT and VC 7.1

I have a quick question - I would like to build the static library and not the DLL. Could you tell me what should be changed in the project apart form the "General->static lib"?

[Nat] Um, no. But since .vcproj files are specially-formatted text files, I assume the worst case would involve building a new static-library project by manually setting things the same way in your new project file as in my old one. The IDE may let you change the root type of a project after the fact; I've never tried.

Do you know how to disable the auto-link of boost?

[Nat] These are things we changed in boost/boost/config/user.hpp: // BOOST_WHATEVER_DYN_LINK: Forces library "whatever" to be linked as a dll // rather than a static library on Microsoft Windows: replace the WHATEVER // part of the macro name with the name of the library that you want to // dynamically link to, for example use BOOST_DATE_TIME_DYN_LINK or // BOOST_REGEX_DYN_LINK etc (this macro is used to turn on __declspec(dllimport) // modifiers, so that the compiler knows which symbols to look for in a dll // rather than in a static library). // Note that there may be some libraries that can only be statically linked // (Boost.Test for example) and others which may only be dynamically linked // (Boost.Threads for example), in these cases this macro is unsupported. // #define BOOST_WHATEVER_DYN_LINK #define BOOST_FILESYSTEM_DYN_LINK #define BOOST_SIGNALS_DYN_LINK #define BOOST_PYTHON_DYN_LINK // BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB: Tells the config system not to automatically select // which libraries to link against. // Normally if a compiler supports #pragma lib, then the correct library // build variant will be automatically selected and linked against, // simply by the act of including one of that library's headers. // This macro turns that feature off. #define BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB