Warning linking boost lib in WDK build ("LNK4217: locally defined symbol _ imported in function _")

Question

I'm building the below example boost-consuming user-mode app with the WDK, but I'm getting the following errors when linking with the boost libraries that I built earlier using bootstrap and .\bjam, from the same terminal window.

IIUC, MSDN says it's because the (hideously mangled) function - which appears to be a C++ std lib function - is marked as a DLL import, yet I have a local definition. How did this happen? Is there a way to work around this?

See also: a loosely related question.

C:\exp>more exp.cpp
#pragma warning(disable: 4512)
#include <boost/program_options.hpp>
int __cdecl main() {
  boost::program_options::options_description desc("Allowed options");
  return 0;
}

C:\exp>more sources
TARGETNAME=exp
TARGETTYPE=PROGRAM

USE_MSVCRT=1
USE_STL=1
USE_NATIVE_EH=1

MSC_WARNING_LEVEL=/W4 /WX

_NT_TARGET_VERSION= $(_NT_TARGET_VERSION_WINXP)

INCLUDES=..\boost_1_40_0

SOURCES=exp.cpp

UMTYPE=console
UMBASE=0x400000

TARGETLIBS = $(SDK_LIB_PATH)\ws2_32.lib ..\boost_1_40_0\stage\lib\libboost_program_options-vc100-mt.lib

C:\exp>build
BUILD: Compile and Link for x86
BUILD: Loading c:\winddk\7600.16385.0\build.dat...
BUILD: Computing Include file dependencies:
BUILD: Start time: Wed Oct 14 17:34:23 2009
BUILD: Examining c:\exp directory for files to compile.
   c:\exp
Invalidating OACR warning log for 'root:x86chk'
BUILD: Saving c:\winddk\7600.16385.0\build.dat...
BUILD: Compiling and Linking c:\exp directory
Configuring OACR for 'root:x86chk' - <OACR on>
_NT_TARGET_VERSION SET TO WINXP
Linking Executable - objchk_win7_x86\i386\exp.exe
1>errors in directory c:\exp
1>link : error LNK1218: warning treated as error; no output file generated
BUILD: Finish time: Wed Oct 14 17:34:44 2009
BUILD: Done

   1 executable built - 1 Warning - 1 Error

C:\exp>more *wrn
1>warnings in directory c:\exp
1>c:\exp\libboost_program_options-vc100-mt.lib(options_description.obj): warning LNK4217: locally defined symbol ??1?$basic_streambuf@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@@std@@UAE@XZ (public: virtual __thiscall std::basic_streambuf<char,struct std::char_traits<char> >::~basic_streambuf<char,struct std::char_traits<char> >(void)) imported in function "public: virtual __thiscall std::basic_stringbuf<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >::~basic_stringbuf<char,struct std::char_traits<char>,class std::allocator<char> >(void)" (??1?$basic_stringbuf@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@UAE@XZ)

Answer 1

You are explicitly including ..\boost_1_40_0\stage\lib\libboost_program_options-vc100-mt.lib in the link.

You should let the boost auto_link stuff configure do the correct #pragma comment(lib, ...) stuff ensure you bring in the right library and set the linker search path correctly. The most likely thing is that the boost library and your code are linking against different runtime libraries.