Re: [Boost-users] Toolset version for Visual Studio 2017 15.6.3

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Toolset version for Visual Studio 2017 15.6.3
From: degski (degski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-04-08 12:45:28

On 7 April 2018 at 22:17, Chris Stankevitz via Boost-users <
boost-users_at_[hidden]> 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:
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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/config.html
[2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6sehtctf.aspx