Toolset version for Visual Studio 2017 15.6.3
What version should I pass to b2 --toolset=msvc-x.y for "Visual Studio 2017 15.6.3"? [1] says [2] will have an up-to-date list with an answer, but [2] is not up-to-date. Thank you, Chris [1] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_65_1/more/getting_started/windows.html#iden... [2] https://www.boost.org/build/doc/html/bbv2/reference/tools.html
On 7 April 2018 at 22:17, Chris Stankevitz via Boost-users < boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:
What version should I pass to b2 --toolset=msvc-x.y for "Visual Studio 2017 15.6.3"?
I use the following project-config.jam file: ==================================== import option ; using msvc : : : <cxxflags>-DBOOST_NO_ANSI_APIS <cxxflags>-DBOOST_USE_WINAPI_VERSION=0x0A00 <cxxflags>-DBOOST_USE_WINDOWS_H=1 <cxxflags>-D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0A00 <cxxflags>-D_MT <cxxflags>-D_WIN32 <cxxflags>-DNOMINMAX <cxxflags>-DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN ; option.set keep-going : false ; ==================================== The above compiles Boost for use on Win10 (See [1] and [2]), without specifically specifying the VS version. You could replace the line using msvc : : : with using msvc : version : : . This should be the VS version number (i.e. currently something with 15 (latest is 15.6.5)), so I guess 15.6 should do here (i.e.: using msvc : 15.6 : : ), but I'm not sure you can ignore the second 5 (in this case), maybe someone else can confirm or correct. degski [1] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_60_0/libs/log/doc/html/log/installation/con... [2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6sehtctf.aspx
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 5:45 AM, degski via Boost-users <boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:
What version should I pass to b2 --toolset=msvc-x.y for "Visual Studio 2017 15.6.3"?
so I guess 15.6 should do here
degski, This is incorrect. The version passed to the "toolset" when using "Visual Studio 2017 15.6.3" is 14.1. Here is the procedure I used to figure it out: 1. Read [1] which said to look at [2] 2. Read [2] but it is not up-to-date 3. Go to Costco and buy a new computer. Install only one compiler on it: "Visual Studio 2017 15.6.3" 4. Compile boost using b2 but do not specify a toolset 5. Look at which toolset was used: "msvc-14.1". Don't ask me now MSVC 15.6.3 has a toolkit version of 14.1. Please feel free to update [2] with these instructions. Chris [1] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_65_1/more/getting_started/windows.html#iden... [2] https://www.boost.org/build/doc/html/bbv2/reference/tools.html
Visual Studio version is not equal to the version of the C++ toolchain. Probably hasn't been since VC6. Confusing as hell, but the way it is. Regards, Nate On Mon, Apr 9, 2018, 8:01 PM Chris Stankevitz via Boost-users < boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 8, 2018 at 5:45 AM, degski via Boost-users <boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:
What version should I pass to b2 --toolset=msvc-x.y for "Visual Studio 2017 15.6.3"?
so I guess 15.6 should do here
degski,
This is incorrect. The version passed to the "toolset" when using "Visual Studio 2017 15.6.3" is 14.1.
Here is the procedure I used to figure it out:
1. Read [1] which said to look at [2] 2. Read [2] but it is not up-to-date 3. Go to Costco and buy a new computer. Install only one compiler on it: "Visual Studio 2017 15.6.3" 4. Compile boost using b2 but do not specify a toolset 5. Look at which toolset was used: "msvc-14.1". Don't ask me now MSVC 15.6.3 has a toolkit version of 14.1.
Please feel free to update [2] with these instructions.
Chris
[1] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_65_1/more/getting_started/windows.html#iden...
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On 10/04/2018 13:06, Nathan Ernst wrote:
Visual Studio version is not equal to the version of the C++ toolchain. Probably hasn't been since VC6.
Confusing as hell, but the way it is.
There's a nice compact list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_C%2B%2B#Internal_version_numb... Boost usually collectively refers to all of VS2017 as 14.1 (although there was a period early in its life when it was called 14.10, which might have made more sense given the way they're numbering them now -- but it was Microsoft themselves that changed that). Unless you install multiple instances of VS2017 side-by-side (in which case you'll have to help B2 out a bit) it usually doesn't really matter. You can see the MSVC versions that B2 knows about by looking at the very bottom of https://github.com/boostorg/build/blob/develop/src/tools/msvc.jam. I suspect there's a command line option to print this out as well but I haven't looked very hard.
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