Re: [boost] Boost linked example

On 3 July 2018 at 09:24, degski wrote:

On 3 July 2018 at 09:07, Steven Watanabe via Boost wrote:

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What exactly did you try? random_device is implemented in the library, so it shouldn't link if the library is missing. (Perhaps auto-link is picking up a library that you weren't expecting?)

The background to the testing is this issue https://github.com/Microsoft/vcpkg/issues/3775 in vcpkg, it doesn't smell good to me.

I've come more or less to the bottom of this (found the stray). Turning up the verbosity on the (failing) build output shows that the linker receives amongst many other things this "z:\vcpkg\installed\x64-windows\lib\*.lib", i.e. vcpkg is simply linking all libraries (so, I don't get why they do the fancy erroneous renaming). And yes, it's not good, IMO. degski -- *"If something cannot go on forever, it will stop" - Herbert Stein*