Re: [boost] [build] recent issues w. VS 2017

Subject: Re: [boost] [build] recent issues w. VS 2017
From: Raffi Enficiaud (raffi.enficiaud_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-05-12 09:11:43

Le 02/05/2018 à 14:55, Steven Watanabe via Boost a écrit :
> AMDG
> 
> On 05/02/2018 05:53 AM, Raffi Enficiaud via Boost wrote:
>> Le 01/05/2018 à 23:23, Steven Watanabe via Boost a écrit :
>>>
>>> On 05/01/2018 03:12 PM, Raffi Enficiaud via Boost wrote:
>>>> I am experiencing an issue with VS 2017 (15.6.6) while compiling
>>>> boost.test on my agent. Traces below.
>>>>
>>>> I do not recall having applied any change to this agent apart from
>>>> installing C++/CLI support for CMake people.
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>> build    01-May-2018 11:43:58
>>>> build    01-May-2018 11:43:58        call
>>>> "..\..\..\bin.v2\standalone\msvc\msvc-14.1\msvc-setup.bat"Â  >nul
>>>> build    01-May-2018 11:43:58     cl /Zm800 -nologo
>>>> @"..\..\..\bin.v2\libs\test\test\string_cast-test.test\msvc-14.1\dbg\thrd-mlt\utils-ts\string_cast-test.obj.rsp"
>>>>
>>>> <snip>
>>>
>>> Check msvc-setup.bat and make sure that it looks sane.
>>> If it's left over from a previous run, try deleting
>>> it and letting it be recreated.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Steven and Peter,
>>
>> However, this happens on clean builds as well.
>>
>> The only call that is done before the bootstrap.bat call is
>> "call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
>> Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\VsDevCmd.bat"
>>
>> The msvc-setup.bat looks ok, as far as I understand it. However, the
>> platform is set to x86 from the "b2 headers" part.
>>
> 
> That's expected.  If you use address-model=64, it will
> create another msvc-setup.bat.
> 
> a) Does it work if you tell Boost.Build to use the
>     original scripts from visual studio directly?
>     (using msvc : 14.1 : : <rewrite-setup-scripts>off ; )
> b) Does the compiler work correctly if you run it manually?
> 
>> I do
>> b2 headers
>> b2 toolset=msvc-14.1 (from libs/test/tests)
>>
>> It used to work so far.
>>

Thanks for all your feedback,

Somehow adding address-model=64 at the header and build steps fixed 
everything. I do not know what I was compiling so far then :)

Best,
Raffi