Re: Boost 1.85, Windows, VS2022 17.10.3, build does not create any libs on building boost

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2024-07-09 09:43:17

Dennis Luehring wrote:
> my system Windows 10 x64, VS2022 10.7.3
> 
> 
> 
> Download:
> https://archives.boost.io/release/1.85.0/source/boost_1_85_0.7z
> 
> unpack zip to boost_1_85_0
> 
> in console:
> 
> cd boost_1_85_0
> bootstrap.bat
> b2 -j%NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS% toolset=msvc-14.3 address-model=64
> --stagedir=.\lib64-msvc-14.3 --build-dir=.\__build --build-type=complete
> threading=multi architecture=x86 stage --with-date_time --with-graph --with-
> nowide --with-test --width-config --with-system --with-filesystem --with-
> serialization --with-locale --with-log
> 
> 
> result - lib64-msvc-14.3\lib\cmake gets created - but no libs

VS2022 received an update after 1.85 was released. You need an updated
b2 (Boost.Build). I think that this patch

https://github.com/bfgroup/b2/commit/2d756eb245e9898cbeb3212ca1716038927329a8

should be enough.

(Or wait for the 1.86 beta.)