On Fri, 10 Aug 2018 at 07:55, Gavin Lambert via Boost-users <boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:
Am I missing some incantation?

I doubt it (reading through your whole post), I've had equally bad experiences with side-by-side installs of VS15 and VS17 and eventually reverted to reinstalling VS17 from scratch as just uninstalling VS15 made the mess even bigger.

degski
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