It is definitely related to precompiled headers. It was only occurring in projects which were using precompiled headers. When I disabled precompiled headers in Release configuration, the link completed without errors.
Looks like Boost in MSVC has been bitten again by the precompiled header issues.
From: Barker, Theo
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 9:03 PM
To: 'boost-users@lists.boost.org'
Subject: RE: linker errors in vs2012 and boost 1.59...
More precisely:
1>Linking...
1> Creating library C:\Projects\Automation_master\Release\X.lib and object C:\Projects\Automation_master\Release\X.exp
1>Client.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall boost::container::container_detail::has_member_function_named_construct __cdecl(void)> >,void *,0,1> > >::BaseMixin::construct(void)" (?construct@BaseMixin@?$has_member_function_named_construct@V?$new_allocator@U?$tree_node@U?$pair@$$CBW4MoFloAutomationCommand@@V?$function@$$A6A?AV?$basic_string@DU?$char_traits@D@std@@V?$allocator@D@2@@std@@XZ@boost@@@std@@PAX$0A@$00@container_detail@container@boost@@@container@boost@@@container_detail@container@boost@@QAEXXZ)
1>Connector.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall boost::container::container_detail::has_member_function_named_construct,void *,0,1> > >::BaseMixin::construct(void)" (?construct@BaseMixin@?$has_member_function_named_construct@V?$new_allocator@U?$tree_node@U?$pair@$$CBKV?$shared_ptr@VClient@@@boost@@@std@@PAX$0A@$00@container_detail@container@boost@@@container@boost@@@container_detail@container@boost@@QAEXXZ)
1>ResultMapper.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: void __thiscall boost::container::container_detail::has_member_function_named_construct,void *,0,1> > >::BaseMixin::construct(void)" (?construct@BaseMixin@?$has_member_function_named_construct@V?$new_allocator@U?$tree_node@U?$pair@$$CBW4errc_t@errc@system@boost@@W4MoFloAutomationCommandResult@@@std@@PAX$0A@$00@container_detail@container@boost@@@container@boost@@@container_detail@container@boost@@QAEXXZ)
1>C:\Projects\Automation_master\Release\X.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 3 unresolved externals
1>Build log was saved at "file://c:\Projects\Automation_master\X\Release\BuildLog.htmfile:///c:\Projects\Automation_master\X\Release\BuildLog.htm"
1>X - 4 error(s), 4 warning(s)
This did not occur with either Debug 1.59 nor Release 1.58. Appears to be true for both prebuilt binaries and built-from-source
From: Barker, Theo
Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2015 4:58 PM
To: 'boost-users@lists.boost.org'
Subject: linker errors in vs2012 and boost 1.59...
Shayne,
It's not just VS2012. I'm seeing that exact behavior with VS2008.
Theo
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