Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost-build] another simple boost build failure
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-25 12:35:18
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Jürgen Hunold <jhunold_at_gmx.eu> wrote:
> Hi Ronny,
>
> On Thursday, 25. October 2012 12:55:10 you wrote:
>> thanks a lot. I did not know that one has to rebuild everything after
>> changing the requirements. It seems to work now.
>
> Good to hear that everything is up and running.
>
>> It is true, I did not read the starting guide thoroughly, I'll do that now
>> :-).
>
> Good, too ;-)
>
>> I am a bit confused about the library being a static library. Shouldn't it
>> be "boost_filesystem-vc90-mt-gds-1_50.lib" instead of
>> "boost_filesystem-vc90-mt-gd-1_50.lib" then? Or did I get it wrong?
>
> Ah, that is the "s" for static runtime. AFAIK the last msvc to provide a
> static runtime was 7.1. Don't confuse "static library" with "static runtime
> libraries".
> The static runtime opens up a new can of worms...
VC11 still supports static runtimes, and I'm glad they do!
Olaf