Re: [Boost-users] Using Boost 1.66 with VS2017

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Using Boost 1.66 with VS2017
From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-02-01 13:09:18

On 01/02/2018 13:01, Tim Burgess via Boost-users wrote:
> Actually, there's a knock-on effect of downloading and copying over the
> files, as suggested - the linker now looks for libs numbered 167, which
> fails as my libs are 166. I tried rebuilding the libs with the updated
> configuration in place, but still get 166-numbered files. I could obviously
> do a global rename to get around this, but thought I'd post here as a
> heads-up.

Oops, sorry for the bad steer.  You probably need to revert 
boost/version.hpp back to the 1.66 version.

>
> Best wishes.
>
> Tim Burgess
>
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> Paul A. Bristow via Boost-users
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> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Using Boost 1.66 with VS2017
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On
>> Behalf Of John Maddock via Boost-users
>> Sent: 01 February 2018 10:51
>> To: Paul A. Bristow via Boost-users
>> Cc: John Maddock
>> Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Using Boost 1.66 with VS2017
>>
>>
>>
>> On 01/02/2018 10:13, Paul A. Bristow via Boost-users wrote:
>>> *From:*Boost-users [mailto:boost-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] *On
>>> Behalf Of *Tim Burgess via Boost-users
>>> *Sent:* 31 January 2018 17:39
>>> *To:* 'boost-users list'
>>> *Cc:* Tim Burgess
>>> *Subject:* [Boost-users] Using Boost 1.66 with VS2017
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I’m getting the following message during compilation of my application:
>>>
>>> 1>Info: Boost.Config is older than your compiler version - probably
>>> nothing bad will happen - but you may wish to look for an update
>>> Boost version.  Define BOOST_CONFIG_SUPPRESS_OUTDATED_MESSAGE to
>>> suppress this message.
>>>
>>> I don’t want to suppress the message, but would appreciate any mods
>>> I need to do to actually stop its cause.
>>>
>>> Many thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>>>
>>> As I understand it, ‘it’s a bug’ and even if you use the latest
>>> version of Boost (or even the unreleased develop branch) you will
>>> still get the message.
>>>
>> Not a bug - that's the way it's supposed to work.  It's a gentle
>> warning that the Boost release you're using hasn't been tested with
>> that msvc release.
>>
>> VS2017 update 5 came out at about the same time as 1.66 so we hadn't
>> had a chance to adjust Boost.Config for the new features in that
>> release, neither did we have a regression test runner for that
>> compiler at that time.   So you can either:
>>
>> * Ignore it and wait for 1.67: some compiler features which could have
>> been enabled will still be disabled (as per the previous msvc release).
>> * Define the macro indicated to shut it up.
>> * Download the current Boost.Config master from
>> https://github.com/boostorg/config/archive/master.zip and extract the
>> contents of /include/boost/ over the top of your boost-root/boost/.
> Ok - it's a feature ;-)
>
> But given the rate of Visual Studio updates (roughly every Msec ;-) roughly
> the same as time for the Boost release process to complete), so the odds are
> that Boost will never catch up Visual Studio!).
>
> So I'm not entirely convinced that this will prove terribly helpful.
>
> It might be intuitive to say
>
>    Info: Your compiler version is newer than Boost.Config.
>
> Would a shorter message and a link to a fuller explanation like
>
>    Info: Boost.Config is older than your compiler version.
>    (See also http://boost.org/link_about_this_message.)
>
> be less clutter and not cause user 'alarm'?
>
> Paul
>
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