How to get boost filesystem to see v120 of the .lib file and not v110

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I'm trying to get boost::filesystem to compile. The system sees the filesystem.hpp file but it can't link and gives the error message

LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_filesystem-vc110-mt-gd-1_55.lib'

I tried building the boost libs with the 1_55 version I'm using but it built the vc120 version and not the vc110 version. This is strange because I'm using the same 1_55_0 source for the #include files and the b2 build so I'm not clear why it's looking for vc110 in the #include and building vc120. I've tried including the .lib file in the VC12 Project settings in Addt'l Dependencies and Addt'l Includes sections but it doesn't make a difference. Same error. I'm using VC2012.

What else can I try?

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vc110 is the default platform toolset of Visual Studio 2012. You can set it in the project properties/Configuration Properties/General/Platform Toolset.

Boost will not build with vc120 with VC2012 because VC2012 cannot use vc120 - I'm not sure if it's possible to make it use the vc120 at all. Usually vc120 means Visual Studio 2013 (and Win8).

I would do the following things:

  1. Check if your filesystem project is set to vc110 (in General/Platform Toolset)
  2. Check if the lib is in Linker/Input/Additional Dependencies
  3. Check if the path to the lib is in VC++ Directories

Boost HAS to build vc110, for whatever reasons it builds vc120, it shouldn't. If it does anyway, set the project settings to vc110.

I hope that helps..