On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 1:04 AM, Marshall Clow via Boost-users <boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:
The release candidates for the 1.61.0 release are now available at:


The SHA256 checksums are as follows:

cd7429340bb4aae38e0ad2e9f59c39e66335302c41577956123e55fc1e2a28ee  boost_1_65_0_beta1_rc1.7z
fda076f7b3c994524d9cd41926c72f4a9b7c017bef310a055956fdd0bed7c358  boost_1_65_0_beta1_rc1.tar.bz2
0d1473041f7a9fa9ce1e256c870cc52af6f98abf723cf4f1ac61c2b45f45d38a  boost_1_65_0_beta1_rc1.tar.gz
f45bbb75b84cdc0c66f8a571d77c518cfbac076d7a6fc7937c4812f0f242a792  boost_1_65_0_beta1_rc1.zip

As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download
the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report
both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.

B2 fails immediately (showstopper!!!) on windows for all tested visual studio compilers (8.0-14.1) when running with --build-type=complete, such as:

b2 -j%NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS% --without-mpi --build-type=complete toolset=msvc-8.0 address-model=32 architecture=x86 --prefix=.\ --libdir=lib32-msvc-8.0 --includedir=garbage_headers install

with the error:

error: link=shared together with runtime-link=static is not allowed
error: such property combination is either impossible
error: or too dangerious to be of any use