Re: MSVC 2019

From: pbristow_at_[hidden]
Date: 2019-07-14 13:32:23

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boost <boost-bounces_at_[hidden]> On Behalf Of Cg K via Boost
> Sent: 14 July 2019 02:38
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Cc: Cg K <kaucher_at_[hidden]>
> Subject: [boost] MSVC 2019
> 
> I recently installed Visual Studio 2019  and then Boost and Quantlib. I tried
to
> compile Quantlb with the precompiled 1.70 boost.
> I go the error message:
> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_unit_test_framework-
> vc142-mt-gd-x64-1_70.lib'
> 
> It appears that compatibility with Visual Studio/MSVC 2019 has not been worked
> out in 1.70 given its release date was so close to the release date of Visual
Studio
> 2019.
> I also noted the the beta for 1.71 was closed.  Wondering if the beta fixes
this or
> is there a workaround or is this a user error?

I think you will need to compile the libraries yourself - you will only have the
1.41 in the prebuilt libraries.

https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_70_0/more/getting_started/windows.html

If you have both 14.1 and 14.2 compilers installed, you will need to adjust your
user-config.jam (or system) so that b2 only uses 14.2 (simpler)  

b2 toolset=msvc-14.2,

 or provide both so that you can built either or both.

b2 toolset=msvc-14.2,msvc-14.1

The *default* msvc version is the *first* in the .jam file.

Or wait until prebuilt 14.2 libraries are available.

HTH

Paul