Re: [boost] [release] 1.64.0 please test master snapshot..

Subject: Re: [boost] [release] 1.64.0 please test master snapshot..
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-18 13:10:11

On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 7:41 AM, Peter Dimov via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 4:06 AM, Tom Kent via Boost <
>> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> > My (semi-)personal dog in the fight:
>> > For the binary builds that we've put on sourceforge, the libraries are
>> > organized in directories based on the b2 command that was used to build >
>> them. This b2 toolset=msvc-14.0 address-model=32 would make >
>> boost_1_XX_0/lib32-msvc-14.0/. This could then be added to Visual >
>> Studio's link path (across multiple project files for different >
>> compilers/architectures) with > boost_1_XX_0/lib$(PlatformArch
>> itecture)-msvc-$(VisualStudioVersion)/.
>>
>
> ...
>
> With one VS version supporting multiple toolsets you can't use the VS
>> version anyway can you?
>>
>
> That's a good point. If I use, say, VS 2015 with the v120 toolset, I need
> to link to the vc120 libraries, not to the vc140 ones. So it seems that
> boost_1_XX_0/lib$(PlatformArchitecture)-vc$(PlatformToolsetVersion)/ is
> better.

I agree that this matches better with the way MS has evolved the platform,
so does that mean that we should change boost build to match e.g. b2
toolset=vc-141? If so, should we retroactively add support (along side
existing syntax) to allow b2 toolset=vc-140, b2 toolset=vc-80?

Tom