Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #2897: asio is not header-only on MSVC

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Daniel James — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 06:51:05 GMT

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Fixed in [52048],[52049]

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dustin@… — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 23:09:23 GMT

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You should also change 'autolink' to true then, since boost.system is autolinking. The only reason I got the error was because I didn't have any of the libraries compiled.

anonymous — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 05:02:41 GMT

Is this still an issue? I think this is a documented requirement of Boost.Asio even in other platforms. Should this be marked wontfix?

Daniel James — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 14:47:26 GMT

(In [67172]) More flexible link description in library list.

So that Asio can be more accurately described. Refs #2897.

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chris_kohlhoff — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:04:59 GMT

status reopened → closed
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Closing as website now appears to contains this information.

anonymous — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:50:18 GMT

Hi, I have included the Boost libraries in VS2008 project, and used the following, #include <asio.hpp> but the it showed error as fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'boost/asio/basic_datagram_socket.hpp': No such file or directory. even though the path is a valid path and all .hpp files are present.

Replying to dustin@…:

The boost documentation claims that asio is a header-only library. However, it seems like it may have non-header-only dependencies. If one even includes the asio header, on Visual Studio 2008 Express edition you get the following linker error:

LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_system-vc90-mt-gd-1_38.lib'

The test program I used:
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <boost/asio.hpp>
using boost::asio::ip::tcp;
int main()
{
  return 0;
}