fatal error LNK1104 cannot open file libboost system-vc110-mt-gd-1 51 lib

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Seem I can t get this to work  I made a simple console application  which depend on websocket   library  which need Boost libraries   but when I try to compile I get      fatal error LNK1104  cannot open file  libboost system-vc110-mt-gd-1 51 lib    However  I did the bjam which created the lib in  boost root  stage libs and I linked the path to the libs to the compiler C   Additionnals includes   If I look in  boost root  stage libs the file  libboost system-vc110-mt-gd-1 51 lib is not there  It is called libboost system-vc110-mt-sgd-1 51 lib instead   Any idea

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This is the simplest way for an amateur like me who is studying C++ on their own:

First Unzip the boost library to any directory of your choice. I recommend c:\directory.

Open your visual C++.
Create a new project.
Right click on the project.
Click on property.
Click on C/C++.
Click on general.
Select additional include library.
Include the library destination. e.g. c:\boost_1_57_0.
Click on pre-compiler header.
Click on create/use pre-compiled header.
Select not using pre-compiled header.

Then go over to the link library were you experienced your problems.

Go to were the extracted file was c:\boost_1_57_0.
Click on booststrap.bat (don't bother to type on the command window just wait and don't close the window that is the place I had my problem that took me two weeks to solve. After a while the booststrap will run and produce the same file, but now with two different names: b2, and bjam.
Click on b2 and wait it to run.
Click on bjam and wait it to run. Then a folder will be produce called stage.
Right click on the project.
Click on property.
Click on linker.
Click on general.
Click on include additional library directory.
Select the part of the library e.g. c:\boost_1_57_0\stage\lib.

And you are good to go!

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In case you have trouble building boost or prefer not to do that  an alternative is to download the lib files from SourceForge   The link will take you to a folder of zipped lib and dll files for version 1 51   But  you should be able to edit the link to specify the version of choice   Apparently the installer from BoostPro has some issues

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b2 -j cores  toolset  msvcver  address-model 64 architecture x86 link static threading multi runtime-link shared --build-type minimal stage --stagedir stage x64   Properties   Linker   General   Additional Library Directories   BOOST  stage x64 lib

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I had same issue reported here   I solved the issue moving the mainTest cpp from a subfolder src mainTest  to the main folder src  I guess this was your problem too

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The C     General   Additional Include Directories parameter is for listing directories where the compiler will search for header files    You need to tell the linker where to look for libraries to link to  To access this setting  right-click on the project name in the Solution Explorer window  then Properties   Linker   General   Additional Library Directories  Enter  lt boost path gt  stage lib here  this is the path where the libraries are located if you build Boost using default options

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2 gt LINK   fatal error LNK1104  cannot open file  libboost regex-vc120-mt-sgd-1 55 lib  In my case  bootstrap bjam was not available  libraries were precompiled and committed to SCM  on old inherited project  Libraries did not have VC or BOOST versioning in their filenames eg  libboost regex-mt-sgd lib  however Processed  DEFAULTLIB libboost regex-vc120-mt-sgd-1 55 lib was somehow triggered automatically   Fixed by manually adding the non-versioned filename to    lt AdditionalDependencies gt   DK BOOST  lib64 libboost regex-mt-sgd lib lt  AdditionalDependencies gt    and blacklisting the    vc120-mt-sgd-1 55 lib in   lt IgnoreSpecificDefaultLibraries gt libboost regex-vc120-mt-sgd-1 55 lib lt  IgnoreSpecificDefaultLibraries gt

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I had a similar problem when trying to use boost unit testing in Visual Studio 2015  Community Edition       fatal error LNK1104  libboost unit test framework-vc140-mt-1 57   so I thought I d share my solution   You can create a boost unit testing project in of of two ways  and this solution works for both     using the Boost Unit Test Adapter or by creating a Win32 Console Application  steps here   and substituting the main function with a boost unit testing function  steps here     Here are the steps I followed to get both projects to work   First  download the desired boost version  for example  boost 1 57 0   You can either download boost with the correct binaries  compiled using msvc v140   or extract the binaries yourself by running the following commands from command line    bootstrap bat  C  Program Files  x86  Microsoft Visual Studio 14 0 VC vcvarsall bat  x86 bjam --clean bjam -j4 --debug-symbols on --build-type complete toolset msvc-14 0 threading multi runtime-link shared address-model 32   Where msvc-14 0 specifies that we require the Visual Studio 2015 version  VS 2015   v14 0   v140   and address-model 32 specifies that we require platform 32  but the same can be done for 64 bit    Once you have the binaries  go to Visual Studio  select the Boost Unit Testing project you have created  Go to Project properties   configuration  from the main menu  and make the following choices    Set the  General   Platform Toolset  to Visual Studio 2015  v140     Include the path to the boost folder  e g  C  boost 1 57 0  and the path to the subfolder containing the binary files  e g  C  boost 1 57 0 stage lib  in     C C     Additional Include Directory    and  Linker   Additional Library Directories

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I had the same problem and my mistake was that I had installed the binary boost 1 55 0-msvc-11 0-32 exe to use with visual c   2010 which has the version v100   project properties- ConfiguratioProperties- General- platformTooset  not v110 as visual c   2012  So I dowloaded boost 1 55 0-msvc-10 0-32 exe and now everything is ok so far

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Yet another solution   I was stumped because I was including boost regex-vc120-mt-gd-1 58 lib in my Link- Additional Dependencies property  but the link kept telling me it couldn t open libboost regex-vc120-mt-gd-1 58 lib  note the lib prefix    I didn t specify libboost regex-vc120-mt-gd-1 58 lib   I was trying to use  and had built  the boost dynamic libraries   dlls  but did not have the BOOST ALL DYN LINK macro defined   Apparently there are hints in the compile to include a library  and without BOOST ALL DYN LINK it looks for the static library  with the lib prefix   not the dynamic library  without a lib prefix

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I had the same problem  It was caused because I compiled the Boost with the Visual C   2010 v100  and I tried to use the library with the Visual Studio 2012  v110  by mistake   So  I changed the configurations  in Visual Studio 2012  going to Project properties -  General -  Plataform Toolset and change the value from Visual Studio 2012  v110  to Visual Studio 2010  v100

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