[Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #9214: (Windows) bjam should choose the msvc version from the current visual studio prompt

Subject: [Boost-bugs] [Boost C++ Libraries] #9214: (Windows) bjam should choose the msvc version from the current visual studio prompt
From: Boost C++ Libraries (noreply_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-09 07:52:23

#9214: (Windows) bjam should choose the msvc version from the current visual
studio prompt
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 Reporter:  desurium@…      |       Type:  Bugs
   Status:  new             |  Milestone:  To Be Determined
Component:  Building Boost  |    Version:  Boost 1.53.0
 Severity:  Problem         |   Keywords:
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 If you have multiple versions of msvc installed bjam seems to choose
 itself the version of msvc and do not take the current environment into
 account.

 This behaviour is totally misleading, beacuse I open a specific Visual
 Studio prompt with a reason.

 Bjam should pick the current msvc version out of the msvc prompt by
 default.

 Example: I want to build boost through the cmake ExternalProject
 mechanism. I have msvc11 and msvc12 installed. Even after I opened a
 msvc12 prompt, bjam picks msvc11. This will result into linking errors
 later in the cmake build process because of runtime mismatches.

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Ticket URL: <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/9214>
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