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When i build the boost library, with the vs 2013 developer prompt, 

>bootstrap
>b2

it will generate the lib files in an subdirectory:

bin.v2

every library is now saved as follows(example): 

 <path>\boost_1_55_0\bin.v2_x64\libs\log\build\msvc-12.0\debug\address-model-64\architecture-x86\link-static\log-api-winnt\threading-multi\libboost_log_setup-vc120-mt-gd-1_55.lib

Now when i try to build an app which uses logging, i will get an linker error because the

file 'libboost_log_setup-vc120-mt-gd-1_55.lib' could not be opened. Now, when i specify the location of this file in the linker properties of my project and rebuild it another file is missing:

libboost_system-vc120-mt-gd-1_55.lib

rinse and repeat and yet another dependency will pop up, libboost_date_time-vc120-mt-gd-1_55.lib and so on, is there a smart way to solve this problem? like building the boost libraries in a way that the boost build programm will put them in one single folder or can i configure visual studio to search recursively for the libs?

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  • Isn't it enough to put the library path `\boost_1_55_0\bin.v2_x64\libs\log\build\msvc-12.0\debug\address-model-64\architecture-x86\link-static\log-api-winnt\threading-multi` just once and specify the several `.lib` files? I don't exactly get what you're asking for (but I'm also not that frequently using VS) – πάντα ῥεῖ Jun 19 '14 at 21:08
  • no because they are in different directories that's the problem thererfore vs does not find them – Daniel Jawna Jun 19 '14 at 21:10

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Someone else asked a question on how to build x64 libs with bjam: 64-bit version of Boost for 64-bit windows

the answer also contained the answer to this concrete question: after the bootstrap command, the bjam command goes as follows:

bjam --toolset=msvc-12.0 --build-type=complete allthelibs

where --toolset=msvc-12.0 corresponds to visual studio 2013

and allthelibs will be the subfolder containing all the boostlibs

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