Re: [Boost-users] Sanity check please?: Boost 1_55_0 and building VS2012 static libs?

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Sanity check please?: Boost 1_55_0 and building VS2012 static libs?
From: Lars Viklund (zao_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-05-21 16:18:21

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 08:23:01PM +0100, g4_at_[hidden] wrote:
> Superficially, the numbering 'scheme' bears no resemblance to either names
> of Visual Studio editions or the version number of the relevant C++
> compilers. There was, for example, no VS2011. There was however a 10,12 and
> 13!

It, however, agrees with the third version scheme in use by Microsoft
for Visual Studio.

Visual Studio 6 => 6
Visual Studio .NET (2002) => 7.0
Visual Studio 2003 => 7.1
Visual Studio 2005 => 8.0
Visual Studio 2008 => 9.0
Visual Studio 10 => 10.0
Visual Studio 2012 => 11.0
Visual Studio 2013 => 12.0

>From around 2010, they started providing toolsets with the names v100,
v110, v110_xp, v120, v120_xp, as well as some one-off toolsets like the
Nov12/Nov13 CTP ones.

Its these toolset names that Boost maps to.
You can see this version number in the About dialog of VS, as well.

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Lars Viklund | zao_at_[hidden]