boost library path

Question

I built the boost library, and I see that some libraries appear more than once within boost filesystem. For example, regex can be found either under boost/bin.v2/..../link-static or boost/bin.v2/..../threading-multi.

Is there any difference?

Answer 1

Yes it matters. How much depends on your platform (some platform have auto-linking to determine which version of the library to link to, e.g. Visual C++)

The explanation of the naming conventions can be found here. I'd reccommend going through that whole page carefully, it'll save you grief later on...