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How am I supposed to specify the location of the Boost headers and static libs on Windows with VS2015 when using the provided solution file?

I've tried it with Boost 1.61 freshly downloaded and compiled with v140 (VS 2015) (.\bootstrap.bat, .\b2 --prefix=MYPATH).

Then, in the solution file, I specified in the target properties under C/C++ -> General -> Additional Include Directories the path to MYPATH/include/boost_1_61/ and for Linker -> General -> Additional Library Directories MYPATH/lib as well as for Linker -> Input -> Additional Dependencies libboost_filesystem-vc140-mt-1_61.lib and libboost_system-vc140_mt-1_61.lib (and the -gd for the Debug build).

Compiles fine (i.e. finds headers) but fails at linker step with bunch of unresolved external symbol to boost::system and boost::filesystem.

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That should have worked. I've got it working with 1.58 on VS2015 and 1.62 on VS2013. That may be a library order problem.

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Found my error: I was building/trying the default-selected Release and Debug, which are x64 (i.e. 64bit). My boost was compiled for x86 (i.e. 32bit). Works find now. 👍

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