Well, it doesn't look like you're inclined to give up so I guess we can't either. Jared McIntyre wrote:
I built out everything in test as suggested (there were a few that failed, but don't appear to be related).
Do I take this to mean that almost all the tests (200+) compiled, linked, and executed with no error?
I then took the library built in
libs\serialization\build\libboost_serialization.lib\vc-7_1\debug\threading-m ulti
and moved it to my build location. I ended up getting the same failure. To make sure that my build was picking up the library at link, I added it as a resource to the project, and it continued to have the failure (so I'm sure my project is linking to the library). Is there any more information I could give you about my setup that might help?
OK the way I do it in the IDE is the following: Bring up the project properties page for your project. check the following settings: General 1) Configuration Type: Application(.exe) 2) Use of MFC: Use Standard Windows Libraries 3) Use of ATL: Not using ATL C/C++ 1) General Additional Include Directories - the directory that contains boost headers 3) Preprocessor: Preprocessor definitions - WIN32;_DEBUG;_CONSOLE 4) Code Generation Enable C++ Exceptions - Yes(/EHsc) Runtime Library - Multi-threaded Debug DLL - note the DLL ! ( I suspect this is the problem) Enable Function-level Linking - Yes(/Gy) I prefer this myself but not strictly necessary 5) Language Enable Run-Time type info - Yes (/GR) Linker 1) General Additional Library Directories - <directory that contains the serialization library here> 2) Input Additional Dependencies - libboost_serialization.lib I would hope that those settings should do it. To make sure its finding the correct libboost_serialization.lib - change the name of this file. It should come up with an error at link time - can't find file libbost_serialization.lib. Changing this name back should make this error go away. The program should now compile !? Good Luck. Robert Ramey P.S. The next version of the serialization library implements auto-link functionality which may aleviate this sort of difficulty in the future. RR