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

Subject: Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.64.0 Beta 1
From: Olaf van der Spek (ml_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-03-24 08:02:38

On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Tom Kent via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 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.

I'm using 2015 Community, could that make the difference?

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 7:14 AM, Jürgen Hunold via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>> > VS2015 / W10:

> 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.

Note that this is about VS2015 / W10, W10 ships with the proper PS.

-- 
Olaf