Hi,

I am a complete newbie at boost, who must compile several Boost 1.33.1 Libraries on 64-bit MS Windows Vista, using MS VS2005. I downloaded the 64-bit version of Python (python-2.5.2.amd64.msi) as well as bjam (boost-jam-3.1.16-1-ntx86.zip) and Boost 1.33.1 (boost_1_33_1.zip); I then installed Python and extracted the other two files, placing bjam in the PATH.

I tried various things to build the libraries. I finally got some (not all) of them to build, but I am still confused.

I first changed boost_1_33_1\tools\build\v2\user-config.jam to include the following lines:

using msvc : 8.0 : "c:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 8\vc\bin\amd64\cl.exe" ;

using python : 2.5 : "D:\chap\chears\devel\intersect\Libraries\pc\win64_vs80\python\Python2.5"

I am using the following command (myBoostDir == d:\work\intersect\boost_1_33_1):

bjam ^

-sTOOLS=msvc ^

--prefix=%myBoostDir%\newboost ^

--builddir=%myBoostDir%\newboost ^

--debug-configuration ^

stage ^

> %myBoostDir%\logfile.txt 2>&1

However, that build tells me that it is using the configurations from the v1 directory, when I thought it is supposed to use the v2 directory?

notice: loading Boost.Build from D:/work/intersect/boost_1_33_1/tools/build/v1

The next thing I see is something about "spirit", which I did not see in the documentation.

**** spirit 1.6x required to build library with this compiler ****

**** skipping build of <@boost!libs!serialization!build>libboost_serialization.lib; toolset= msvc variant= debug ****

And worst of all, it tries to use VC98 for the builds, which of course fails:

CALL "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\VC98\bin\VCVARS32.BAT" >nul

I then tried copying user-config.jam to my boost_1_33_1 directory, but that did not help. Reading the documentation, I saw that if one sets MSVCDir, then the builds are supposed to bypass running msvcvars32.bat, so I did that and that's when I actually got something to build. It still uses the v1 configurations and issues the message about spirit. However, it does build most of the libraries. The python one gets the following build errors:

vc-C++ d:\work\intersect\boost_1_33_1\newboost\bin\boost\libs\python\build\boost_python.dll\msvc\debug\threading-multi\object_protocol.obj

object_protocol.cpp

D:\work\intersect\boost_1_33_1\libs\python\build\../src/object_protocol.cpp(110) : error C2664: '_PyEval_SliceIndex' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'int *' to 'Py_ssize_t *'

Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast

D:\work\intersect\boost_1_33_1\libs\python\build\../src/object_protocol.cpp(112) : error C2664: '_PyEval_SliceIndex' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'int *' to 'Py_ssize_t *'

Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast

D:\work\intersect\boost_1_33_1\libs\python\build\../src/object_protocol.cpp(137) : error C2664: '_PyEval_SliceIndex' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'int *' to 'Py_ssize_t *'

Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast

D:\work\intersect\boost_1_33_1\libs\python\build\../src/object_protocol.cpp(139) : error C2664: '_PyEval_SliceIndex' : cannot convert parameter 2 from 'int *' to 'Py_ssize_t *'

Types pointed to are unrelated; conversion requires reinterpret_cast, C-style cast or function-style cast

I also got the following error when building thread:

vc-Link d:\work\intersect\boost_1_33_1\newboost\bin\boost\libs\thread\build\boost_thread.dll\msvc\release\threading‑multi\boost_thread-vc6-mt-1_33_1.dll

Creating library d:\work\intersect\boost_1_33_1\newboost\bin\boost\libs\thread\build\boost_thread.dll\msvc\release\threading‑multi\boost_thread-vc6-mt-1_33_1.lib and object d:\work\intersect\boost_1_33_1\newboost\bin\boost\libs\thread\build\boost_thread.dll\msvc\release\threading-multi\boost_thread-vc6-mt-1_33_1.exp

once.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol _InterlockedCompareExchange referenced in function "long __cdecl `anonymous namespace'::compare_exchange(long * volatile,long,long)" (?compare_exchange@?A0x3441aea5@@YAJREAJJJ@Z)

d:\work\intersect\boost_1_33_1\newboost\bin\boost\libs\thread\build\boost_thread.dll\msvc\release\threading-multi\boost_thread-vc6-mt-1_33_1.dll : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

It did build the following libraries, but it put "vc6" in their file names:

boost_date_time-vc6-mt-gd-1_33_1.dll

boost_date_time-vc6-mt-1_33_1.dll

boost_filesystem-vc6-mt-gd-1_33_1.dll

boost_filesystem-vc6-mt-1_33_1.dll

boost_iostreams-vc6-mt-gd-1_33_1.dll

boost_iostreams-vc6-mt-1_33_1.dll

boost_program_options-vc6-mt-gd-1_33_1.dll

boost_program_options-vc6-mt-1_33_1.dll

boost_regex-vc6-mt-gd-1_33_1.dll

boost_regex-vc6-mt-1_33_1.dll

boost_signals-vc6-mt-gd-1_33_1.dll

boost_signals-vc6-mt-1_33_1.dll

For those unfamiliar with 64-bit MS Windows Vista, one runs the following BATCH program to initialize into the proper Visual Studio environment -- not ...\VC\bin\vcvars32.bat.

"c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\vcvarsall.bat" "platform"

Where "platform" can be x86 (32-bit), amd64 (or x64), ia64, x86_amd64 or x86_ia64.

At any rate, I would appreciate some pointers on how to build for the x64 platform given all of the above.

Thanks,

Bev