How can I decode the boost library naming?
I tried to find out that gd means in boost library name and I only found two other people looking for the same thing. I suppose it should be a place where this is clearly documented and I would like to find it. mt - multitheaded, get it with bjam threading=multi s - bjam runtime-link=static g - using debug versions of the standard and runtime support libraries. what bjam switch??? d - debug bjam variant=debug Update How do I control what bjam switches controls the above variants? In fact the only one that I wasn't able to identify is the g . See Boost getting started windows section 6.3 naming