On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 9:36 AM Marshall Clow via Boost-users <boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:

The release candidates for the first 1.69.0 beta release are now available at:

<https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/beta/1.69.0.beta.1.rc1/source/>

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.

toolset     arch    compile Link    Execute
msvc-8.0    32      FAIL    X       X
msvc-8.0    64      FAIL    X       X
msvc-9.0    32      X       X       X
msvc-9.0    64      X       X       X
msvc-10.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-10.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-11.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-11.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-12.0   32      X       X       X
msvc-12.0   64      X       X       X
msvc-14.0   32      FAIL    X       X
msvc-14.0   64      FAIL    X       X
msvc-14.1   32      X       X       X
msvc-14.1   64      X       X       X

Compile means that the b2 command completed without errors
Link means that visual studio was able to link a sample executable to a library (libboost_thread-vcXXX-mt[-gd]-1_XX.lib)
generated
Execute means that the linked program executed without errors.

Full build logs can be found here:

https://gist.github.com/teeks99/526cf2598d1697557e45e590ce9517be

Lots of errors with msvc-8.0:

compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\log\build\msvc-8.0\release\link-static\threadapi-win32\threading-multi\trivial.obj

trivial.cpp

.\boost/parameter/aux_/arg_list.hpp(227) : error C2064: term does not evaluate to a function taking 1 arguments

        .\boost/parameter/aux_/arg_list.hpp(390) : see reference to class template instantiation 'boost::parameter::aux::arg_list<TaggedArg,Next>' being compiled

 If there is an easy way to fix arg_list.hpp that would be nice, but if this is the time to stop build 8.0, that's fine too.

Also numerous errors for many (all dlls?) of the libraries with msvc-14.0. They all look something like this:

msvc.link.dll bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_atomic-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.dll

   Creating library bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_atomic-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.lib and object bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_atomic-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.exp

msvc.link.dll bin.v2\libs\system\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_system-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.dll

   Creating library bin.v2\libs\system\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_system-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.lib and object bin.v2\libs\system\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_system-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.exp

msvc.link.dll bin.v2\libs\container\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_container-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.dll

   Creating library bin.v2\libs\container\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_container-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.lib and object bin.v2\libs\container\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_container-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.exp

msvc.manifest.dll bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_atomic-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.dll

'mt' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

        if exist "bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_atomic-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.dll.manifest" (

            call "bin.v2\standalone\msvc\msvc-14.0\msvc-setup.bat" x86 >nul

 mt -nologo -manifest "bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_atomic-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.dll.manifest" "-outputresource:bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_atomic-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.dll;2"

        )

    

...failed msvc.manifest.dll bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_atomic-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.dll bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_atomic-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.lib...

...removing bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_atomic-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.dll

...removing bin.v2\libs\atomic\build\msvc-14.0\release\threading-multi\boost_atomic-vc140-mt-x32-1_69.lib

I'm on the fence if we should continue supporting 8.0, so if that doesn't get fixed then no big deal. However the issue with (the build tool?) for 14.0 seems like a showstopper for this RC.