boost - what's the difference between mt-gd and mt-s library

Question

In the boost, there are two types of libs, one is ending with mt-gd, the other is ending with mt-s. What's the difference between those two?

Answer 1

Read Boost Getting Started on Windows

• mt : multi threaded
• d : Add ABI tags, could be used with:
  • g : using debug versions of the standard and runtime support libraries.
  • s : linking statically to the standard and runtime support libraries.
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