On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Daniel Nelson <tor...@connect2.com> wrote: > I built Boost 1.38 with CMake and I'm using CMake to build my programs in > Windows using MSVC and auto linking but I'm getting errors like: > > LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_unit_test_framework- > vc90-mt-sgd-1_38.lib' > > Instead I have a library named libboost_unit_test_framework-vc90-mt-sgd-1_38- > s.lib. While looking through BoostCore.cmake I found this comment: > > # STATIC_TAG: States that the name of static library variants on > # Unix need to be named differently from shared library > # variants. This particular option should only be used in rare cases > # where the static and shared library variants are incompatible, > # such that linking against the shared library rather than the > # static library will cause features. When this option is provided, > # static libraries on Unix variants will have "-s" appended to their > # names. Note: we hope that this is a temporary solution. At > # present, it is only used by the Test library. > > And a ways below is the place where the -s is appended. It seems like the -s > should only be appended in Unix in order to avoid breaking the auto linking in > Windows.
FWIW, this has been fixed. - Doug _______________________________________________ Boost-cmake mailing list Boost-cmake@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-cmake
