boost linking

[c94wjpn]

hi folks,
I'm building an app and the error is

1>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'libboost_date_time-vc90-mt-sgd-1_42.lib'

and I haven't told it to link against this library in project settings, so why is it even trying to find this file? Devstudio 2008.

[Paul McKenzie]

hi folks,
I'm building an app and the error is

1>LINK : fatal error LNK1181: cannot open input file 'libboost_date_time-vc90-mt-sgd-1_42.lib'

and I haven't told it to link against this library in project settings, so why is it even trying to find this file? Devstudio 2008.

Look up "#pragma comment" and the "lib" option.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...(v=vs.80).aspx

Regards,

Paul McKenzie

[c94wjpn]

no, actually I think I need to look up boost BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB option.

[Paul McKenzie]

no, actually I think I need to look up boost BOOST_ALL_NO_LIB option.

Well you asked how a library can be linked without specifying it in the project settings, and

#pragma comment (lib,"whatever.lib")

is how it's done with the Visual Studio C++ compiler. All that BOOST_??? stuff does is more than likely place #ifdef/#endif around these set of #pragmas.

Regards,

Paul McKenzie