Volodya, thanks -- it turned out I forgot the BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB. I have another related question. If I don't use <runtime-link>static, obviously the built executable needs the runtime DLLs. My question is, is there a way to specify a directory dependent on the MSVC version that contains the necessary runtime dlls so that Boost Build can run a target that was successfully built? (Arguably, what I'm asking for shouldn't be supported, since the correct way to do this is to have multiple versions of Visual Studio properly installed, whereas I only have VC9 installed, from VC8 I just have the compiler/linker, libraries, runtime DLLs, etc. copied in a folder.) Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> wrote:

Emil Dotchevski wrote:

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I'm trying to use <link>static and <runtime-link>static with my own code, which depends on boost filesystem, and I have the problem that the linker is passed libboost_filesystem-vc80-mt-sgd-1_41.lib while the debug\link-static\runtime-link-static folder has libboost_filesystem-vc80-sgd-1_41.lib.

Emil,

in general, it's best to provide the exact command(s) you are running, and the exact error output from whatever tool emit error. If you have Boost.Build project that depends on Boost, I'd recommend setting <define>BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB in project requirements, as the autolink only works if all of Boost is built and installed into some directory, and that directory is added to library search path -- and none of this should be necessary as Boost.Build can directly link to right library without any autolink at all.

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Volodya, thanks for the suggestion again. Using the depends.exe tool from Microsoft I can see that the two missing DLLs my program needs are MSVCP80D.DLL and MSVCR80D.DLL. I'm guessing that Boost Build passes the path specified by <dll-path> in the PATH env variable and that the program itself doesn't look for these particular DLLs on the PATH. Manually adding the directory on the PATH, or even starting the program from the directory containing the DLLs also doesn't work. By now this is well beyond the scope of Boost Build but I'd still want to get it working. Any ideas? Thanks, Emil Dotchevski Reverge Studios, Inc. http://www.revergestudios.com/reblog/index.php?n=ReCode On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com> wrote:

Emil Dotchevski wrote:

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Volodya, thanks -- it turned out I forgot the BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB.

I have another related question. If I don't use <runtime-link>static, obviously the built executable needs the runtime DLLs. My question is, is there a way to specify a directory dependent on the MSVC version that contains the necessary runtime dlls so that Boost Build can run a target that was successfully built?

Only manually: you can have something like:

       <toolset>msvc-8.0:<dll-path>C:/vc8/lib

and it should work for running tests.

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(Arguably, what I'm asking for shouldn't be supported, since the correct way to do this is to have multiple versions of Visual Studio properly installed, whereas I only have VC9 installed, from VC8 I just have the compiler/linker, libraries, runtime DLLs, etc. copied in a folder.)

I see. Let me know of the above helps.

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Emil Dotchevski wrote:

Volodya, thanks for the suggestion again.

Using the depends.exe tool from Microsoft I can see that the two missing DLLs my program needs are MSVCP80D.DLL and MSVCR80D.DLL. I'm guessing that Boost Build passes the path specified by <dll-path> in the PATH env variable and that the program itself doesn't look for these particular DLLs on the PATH. Manually adding the directory on the PATH, or even starting the program from the directory containing the DLLs also doesn't work.

By now this is well beyond the scope of Boost Build but I'd still want to get it working. Any ideas?

Emil, this is starting to get offtopic for the mail boost list. Can you write to boost-build@lists.boost.org? You don't need to subscribe, and can read via gmane. Please be sure to specify the output from depends.exe, and the exact error message you get. Also, are you by chance on a 64-bit system? There were reports about misterious failures to find debug runtime, which were only solved by reinstall of VC. - Volodya