According to the doc, date_time is one of the libs which the build is not necessary (but optional). Am I misinterpreting it or is it wrong? Here's the link: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_41_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#heade... André. Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:55:43 -0400

From: Brett Gmoser To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Can't compile with date time Message-ID: <4C1AA7EF.4080506@codexterous.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed

On 6/17/2010 6:42 PM, Andr? Santee wrote:

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Why is my Visual C++ Express giving me the following error message?

LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_date_time-vc90-mt- gd-1_41.lib'

The boost documentation says that the date_time library is header-only. Why is it trying to find binaries?

Andre.

I'm not sure where you read that date_time is header only, but it isn't. :) You'll need to build boost to use it. Make sure MSVC knows where to find the binaries you want it to link with.