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From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-09 05:46:02
> I'm trying to update the serialization build Jamfile to build shared
> library/DLL. I'm using MSVC 7.1
>
> Things work fine for static libs. But when building the DLL I get the
> following in the bjam output.
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file
> 'boost_serialization-vc71-mt-gd-1_32.lib'
> The fatal error is a link error indicating that the import lib can't be
> created. To me everything seems well formed. I can't imagine what I have
> to
> do to make this work.
>
> Has anyone seen anything like this before.
One possibility: does the library actually export it's symbols; if a dll
doesn't export anything VC will not produce a .lib file when linking the
dll.
John.