build boost.ui project using visual studio 2019

[moe-salih]

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error LNK1104 cannot open file 'libboost_ui-vc142-mt-gd-x32-1_70.lib' UIDemo C:\Users\Muhammed\source\repos\UIDemo\UIDemo\LINK 1

I got this error while I am trying to build a simple project for the first time using Boost.UI

when I looked at $(BOOST_ROOT)\stage\lib : I didnot find " libboost_ui-vc142-mt-gd-x32-1_70.lib " although I did the build steps on the build Boost.UI github repos build boost.ui

@kosenko 👍 :

[kosenko]

Sorry, but I didn't try to build Boost.UI using Visual Studio 2019. Do you have any errors during Boost.UI build? Or it just build nothing? Could you please to try to run examples?

[moe-salih]

I build Boost.UI using b2 that is part of boost library, where I followed the direction of the Build Boost.UI .. but, this did not produce .lib file for the boost.UI which is needed to compile any project depend on this library. which is should be in $(BOOST_ROOT)\stage\lib but it's eventually did not exist. the error of building the project is above ..

my question exactly is what i did wrong that is why the .lib file is missing. the building procedure that i followed to build boost.ui are:

1: i move the "ui" directory to "$(BOOST_ROOT)\libs\"

2: i download wxwidgets and setup environment variables $(WXWIN) : wxwidgets installing directory.

3: i execute the following commands :

PC> b2 libs/ui/build/ link=static PC> b2 libs/ui/test/ link=static PC> b2 libs/ui/example/ link=static PC> b2 libs/ui/example/cpp11/ link=static

• all the executions did not failed or show error message . if you want the executions output I could send them here.