From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-06-07 21:58:23
On 2020-06-08 00:16, Andrey Semashev wrote:
> On 2020-06-08 00:00, Robert Ramey via Boost wrote:
>> I made a few checkins to the serialization library which I had
>> previously tested on my working system. But Now I'm getting some very
>> weird errors in the Boost Test matrix:
>>
>> https://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/serialization.html
>>
>>
>> Anyone who has some useful insight would be free to chime in.
>>
>> According to P Dimov, Filesystem is guilty and i should request help
>> from andrey semashev - so here it is.
>
> Yes, it looks like on that system (which is Linux) Windows-only
> libraries bcrypt and advapi32 are being linked with Boost.Filesystem.
> I'm not really sure why that happens, as I'm checking that the target
> system is Windows when I'm adding those libraries:
>
> https://github.com/boostorg/filesystem/blob/a3e517365a41f616b895f410c6ae430fcd7cf89a/build/Jamfile.v2#L21
>
>
> I would appreciate if someone knowledgeable about Boost.Build could take
> a look to tell what I'm doing wrong.
>
> The two weird things about this problem are:
>
> 1. Travis CI on Linux passed.
> 2. The error log says that both bcrypt and advapi32 are being linked,
> and the code in the Jamfile is selecting only one of those.
>
> I'm going to try marking bcrypt and advapi32 libs explicit, just in case
> it helps.
I've marked the libs explicit, and I think it should help. Not
completely sure why the problem happened in the first place, though.
Anyway, sorry for the inconvenience.