Boost linker error: Unresolved external symbol “class boost::system::error_category const & __cdecl boost::system::get_system_category(void)”

Question

I\'m just getting started with Boost for the first time, details:

1. I\'m using Visual Studio 2008 SP1
2. I\'m doing an x64 Build
3. I\'m using boost:

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I tried all described above, but nothing helps. The solution was simple: first I worked with an empty project and there I had linker error LNK2019. But when I created new default Win32 console application with stdafx.h, targetver.h and stdafx.cpp files everything worked. May be it will be useful for somebody, I spend two days for this