Everything's works if - compiling with GCC, or - none of the source files includes boost/filesystem.hpp.
The link settings are
<threading>multi <link>static <runtime-link>static
Here are the symptoms:
boost_filesystem-vc80-mt-sd-1_34.lib
is built, but linking fails because
... cannot open file 'libboost_filesystem-vc80-mt-sgd-1_34.lib'
. Adding
<runtime-debugging>off
to the link settings changes error message to
... cannot open file 'libboost_filesystem-vc80-mt-s-1_34.lib'
I'm using Boost.Build V2. There is an example project that shows the problem attached to this post (note the path to Boost in 'project-root.jam' needs manual adjustment).
I believe this is a bug in bbv2: I complained about this a while back and just got a message that it hadn't been implemented yet. The problem is that bbv2 is mangling the library filenames in a manner differently to bbv1, and documented in our getting started guide. You may want to turn autolinking off by defining BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB when compiling until someone fixes this in bbv2. John.