Boost 1.41 LNK1104 error

Question

I have been using Boost 1.36 for a while without any problems. Had to upgrade to 1.41 to get PropertyTree. Boost appears to build properly but when i try and compile the project that was using boost 1.36 I get this error.

1>LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'C:\dev\3rdparty\boost-build_1_41_0\boost\bin.v2\libs\filesystem\build\msvc-9.0\debug\link-static\threading-multi.obj'

The object file name seems invalid. threading-multi is a directory.

I built boost using

bootstrap
.\bjam

and also tried

bjam --build-dir=c:\dev\3rdparty\boost-build_1_41_0
  --toolset=msvc --threading=multi --without-python --runtime-link=static --buildtype=complete stage

both at the Vs2008 command prompt.

I have updated references to the correct boost directories in the project.

Thanks

Answer 1

I think the VS version is important. Try adding -9.0. Here's my command line which works for 2008:

bjam --build-dir=./build --toolset=msvc-9.0 --with-system --with-filesystem --with-date_time --runtime-link-static --threading-multi --link-static --build-type=complete stage

Answer 2

I am relatively sure that this is not a problem with Boost itself. If it were a problem with autolink, you will not see that long path in the linker error message.

Can you create a brand new project and see if the problem reproduces? If no, check your project to see if you refer to "bin.v2" anywhere. Remove such references. You should only add the 'stage/lib' directory to additional library paths.