Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.64.0 Beta 1

Subject: Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.64.0 Beta 1
From: Jürgen Hunold (jhunold_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-24 06:14:22

Hi Tom,

Am Donnerstag, 23. März 2017, 17:42:36 CET schrieb Tom Kent via Boost:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:04 AM, Olaf van der Spek via Boost <
> 
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> > VS2015 / W10:
> > 
> > boost_1_64_0>bootstrap.bat
> > 
> > Building Boost.Build engine
> > HRESULT was unexpected at this time.
> > 
> > boost_1_64_0\tools\build\src\engine>
> 
> I just made some VMs one with Windows 2012R2 server and one with Windows 10
> each with only VS2015 professional on it.
> bootstrap.bat ran fine there and the resulting b2.exe seemed to be working.

Thanks for testing this. a simple "bootstrap.bat" without a toolset tries to 
auto-detect the most current available vc compiler, in Olaf's case this would 
be VC2017. And the auto-detection code seems to need at least PowerShell 5.0 
at the moment.

Yours,

Jürgen
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