c++ - Do i have static or dynamic boost libraries?

Question

I have ran bjam.exe --build-dir="C:uild-boost" --build-type=minimal msvc stage

and now I have libraries .lib with these headers, for example

libboost_serialization-vc100-mt
libboost_serialization-vc100-mt-1_45
libboost_serialization-vc100-mt-gd
libboost_serialization-vc100-mt-gd-1_45

I believe these should be static libraries for debug and release version. When I run the compiler with Multi-threaded Debug (/MTd) it gives an error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_serialization-vc100-mt-sgd-1_45.lib' It is looking for one with -sgd

where am i going wrong?

Answer 1

Something that is kind of confusing is there are two 'static' options for building boost with MSVC.

B2.exe takes the option link=static which tells boost that you want to link IT statically. If you are compiling your VC project with /MT or /MTd you will also need to use the runtime-link=static option to tell boost that you will be linking to the VC runtime libraries statically.

It is the second runtime-link=static which puts the -s in the .lib name.

My command line for building boost was

b2.exe --toolset=msvc variant=release link=static threading=multi runtime-link=static stage