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POLinking a static boost build into a static library under VS2012 & Win32/64
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copied!<p>I'm trying to build a static library to be released as an API for a network device. I can successfully compile and link the library to produce .lib output files, and I relocate them into a directory structure as follows:</p> <pre><code>EyeLib L-Include | L-PublicInterface.h L-Lib | L-debug | | L-MyLib.lib | | L-MyLib.pdb | L-release | L-MyLib.lib L-MyLibConfig.cmake </code></pre> <p>Where the MyLibConfig.cmake file is extremely simple, and contains:</p> <pre><code># the header file is relative to this cmake file, so get the path. GET_FILENAME_COMPONENT( MyLib_TOPLEVEL_DIR ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_FILE} PATH ) SET( MyLib_INCLUDE_DIR ${MyLib_TOPLEVEL_DIR}/include ) IF( WIN32 ) FIND_LIBRARY( MyLib_DEBUG_LIBRARY MyLib ${MyLib_TOPLEVEL_DIR}/lib/debug ) FIND_LIBRARY( MyLib_RELEASE_LIBRARY MyLib ${MyLib_TOPLEVEL_DIR}/lib/release ) SET( MyLib_LIBRARIES optimized ${MyLib_RELEASE_LIBRARY} debug ${MyLib_DEBUG_LIBRARY} ) ENDIF( WIN32 ) IF( UNIX ) FIND_LIBRARY( MyLib_LIBRARY MyLib ${MyLib_TOPLEVEL_DIR}/lib ) SET( MyLib_LIBRARIES "${MyLib_LIBRARY}" ) MARK_AS_ADVANCED( MyLib_LIBRARY ) ENDIF( UNIX ) # handle the QUIETLY and REQUIRED arguments INCLUDE(FindPackageHandleStandardArgs) FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS(MyLib DEFAULT_MSG MyLib_LIBRARIES MyLib_INCLUDE_DIR) MARK_AS_ADVANCED( MyLib_INCLUDE_DIR ) </code></pre> <p>This build structure has worked for some test libraries I've built in the past, but I'm getting a link error when I try and use it to build a simple test app saying "error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_thread-vc110-mt-s-1_54.lib'"</p> <p>I can get the test app to build and run successfully if I add it to the same project as the library build. I assume this is because the library build is finding the boost libs to link against, so it propagates through to the executables in the project.</p> <p>I built boost 1.54 with b2 link=static runtime-link=static threading=multi variant=debug,release --layout=tagged and linked both the library build and the test app build to the static MSVC runtime (/MT).</p> <p>Can anyone offer some help/advice/further tests with this one? I need to make sure that all the boost stuff is compiled-in to the API library, so our clients don't have to install boost themselves.</p> <p><strong>Additional Info</strong></p> <p>In-case it's helpful, here's the cmakelists.txt file from the library build:</p> <pre><code>set(LIBRARY_OUTPUT_PATH "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib") set(Boost_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON) set(Boost_USE_MULTITHREADED ON) find_package(Boost REQUIRED COMPONENTS system date_time regex thread chrono) if(NOT WIN32) list(APPEND Boost_LIBRARIES pthread) endif() include_directories(${Boost_INCLUDE_DIRS}) FILE(GLOB srcs *.cpp) FILE(GLOB headers *.h) set(libname MyLib) set(deps ${Boost_LIBRARIES}) #To allow compilation. std=c++0x is for accepting the access to enums, which usually is just accepted with Visual Studio IF( NOT WIN32 ) set (CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "-fpermissive -std=c++0x") ENDIF( NOT WIN32 ) SOURCE_GROUP( ${libname} FILES ${srcs} ) SOURCE_GROUP( "${libname}\\Hdr" FILES ${headers} ) add_library(${libname} ${srcs} ${headers}) target_link_libraries( ${libname} ${deps} ) </code></pre>

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