[boost] Re: Latest tarball and auto-link

John Maddock wrote:

Yes, if you're linking to the dll runtime then you can either link to the static or the dll versions of the libraries.

The default is static linking in this release, defining BOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK changes it to dynamic linking.

Boost.Threads uses dynamic linking by default because there is no static version, or is there, actually I thought this had been fixed?

We also need to add something about this in the getting started docs.

Thanks John, I didn't realise that even though I was using the dynamic runtime, I could still link to static boost libs, providing they were built with the dynamic runtime also. Cheers Russell