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Reputation: 1270

Boost library error in Windows 7 64-bit

I have correctly compiled Boost for Windows 8 with VS-10 as given in this link. My project works fine. But when I copy the project to another Windows 7 machine it returns an error message as "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close this application.". I have correctly installed Boost in the second PC as well. Both PCs are 64-bit and I installed 32-bit Boost in both. As I found from some links this is because the project try dynamically linking 64-bit libraries instead 32-bit. Could you kindly advice how to build this as a portable solution. Thanks in advance.

Update 1: Following is the dependency walker output. enter image description here

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Answers (1)

J-Mik
J-Mik

Reputation: 896

Are you sure you selected the Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt x86 to compile the library? or the x64 version? there is more than 1 version of the command prompt in the start menu. my guess would be that you accidentally ran the x64 version, and then compiled boost with it, resulting in a x64 bit version of the library compiled.

Here's a batch file that compiles the static and shared version of boost in x86:

compileboost.bat:

call "%vs110comntools%..\..\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86
cd C:/boostsourcefolder/
call bootstrap.bat
.\b2 runtime-link=static
.\b2 runtime-link=shared

Then in your VS2010 project properties, Common Properties -> VC++ Directories -> Include Directories, type your boost folder (C:/boostsourcefolder/). and in Common Properties -> VC++ Directories -> Library Directories, type the boost compiled library folder (C:/boostsourcefolder/stage/lib/).

That's pretty much all you need to do.

Upvotes: 1

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