Re: [boost] [Boost-build] Building Boost 1.69 with Visual Studio 1.69

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost-build] Building Boost 1.69 with Visual Studio 1.69
From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-03-25 20:15:43

On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 20:00, Rene Rivera via Boost-build
<boost-build_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 1:09 PM Paul A. Bristow via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>> This looks fine, except that what I really expect and want to be able to do is use BOTH 14.1 and 14.2 in one call of bjam/b2
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>> b2 address-model=64 toolset=msvc-14.1,msvc-14.2 ...
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> If that's not supported it would be a bug.
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>> So I put this in my user-config.jam
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>> using msvc
>>    : # Version VS 2017
>>     14.1
>>    : # compiler location (Note that the file layout completely changed recently)
>>   "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Professional/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.14.26428/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe"  # 15.7.1
>> 15May2018 for
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> You shouldn't need to put in the cl.exe path. B2 is supposed to find it on its own.

Yes.
Things seem to improved since my last e-mail where I described the hack.
This should do the trick now, AFAICT:

using msvc : 14.2 ;

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