Do i have static or dynamic boost libraries?

Question

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

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

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Answer 1

See Boost getting started windows section 6.3 naming and section 6.1 on Unix naming

For static libraries there should be a s in there e.g. -sgd so you have dynamic libraries

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

You have the dynamic versions. The static ones are delimited by having the "s" in the name. Make sure you specified link=static on the bjam command line. If not, you'll have to rebuild to make the static versions.

Answer 4

here is how i break it down

libboost_serialization-vc100-mt-sgd-1_45.lib

lib- if boost library starts with lib then its a static library , shared library do not start with lib prefix. Also static library will have a '-s' in the name.

mt- multi-threaded , obtained by specifying threading=multi when you ran bjam or b2.This is the default threading.

g- use debug libraries for building the code
d- build a debug version of your code

So your compiler is searching for multi-threaded static debug library(mt-sgd) as you ran with /MTd(Creates a debug multithreaded executable file using LIBCMTD.lib). I guess by default it must be searching for static library. If you want a dynamic library, insert these lines in your code or define a macro

#define BOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK

Answer 5

Please check this document: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_45_0/more/getting_started/windows.html#library-naming

There you can find the meanings of all letters and how you can build the boost accordingly also...