Re: [Boost-users] Building Boost 1.66.0 - probable user error

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Building Boost 1.66.0 - probable user error
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-03-16 02:09:01

AMDG

On 03/15/2018 07:48 PM, Larry via Boost-users wrote:
> I must be getting old. Building Boost used to be so much easier. I
> suspect I have missed something in the doc.
> 
> I downloaded 1.66.0. This is for Win8.1 and MSVC 2017. From a command
> line bootstrap finally worked to get b2 although there were complaints
> about some of the options. Running b2 fails. I used to do
> 
> Â  .\b2 --prefix=xxx toolset=msvc --build-type=complete stage
> 

Are you running this command from the top level directory?
The error indicates that you're probably running it in
some other directory.

> Almost verbatim from the Getting Started doc. stage is not a target is
> the error. As far as I know the only way to find targets is to wander
> through .jam files (finding targets was always difficult as far back as
> 1.27 as I recollect).
> 
> Any idea what I missed and where?
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe