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

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [boost] Building Boost 1.69 with Visual Studio 1.69
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-03-25 18:59:35

On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 1:09 PM Paul A. Bristow via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> 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
>
> b2 address-model=64 toolset=msvc-14.1,msvc-14.2 ...
>

If that's not supported it would be a bug.

> So I put this in my user-config.jam
>
> 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
>

You shouldn't need to put in the cl.exe path. B2 is supposed to find it on
its own.

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