[Boost-users] Boost 1.68.0 contains only python 3.7 library, no python 2.7 library?

Subject: [Boost-users] Boost 1.68.0 contains only python 3.7 library, no python 2.7 library?
From: Heng Zhou (hzhou3_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-11-09 06:54:42

Hi,

I installed Boost 1.68.0 recently from Windows x64 pre-compiled binary
"boost_1_68_0-msvc-14.0-64.exe" downloaded from
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sourceforge.net_projects_boost_files_boost-2Dbinaries_1.68.0_&d=DwIBaQ&c=Ngd-ta5yRYsqeUsEDgxhcqsYYY1Xs5ogLxWPA_2Wlc4&r=uu0095bHyY4u8_4aL_8VSkoBAibccyzY1AWGIZA2kCM&m=cMxoVBp9aAfrFPQFs7HeHNCcnjbvOBsZay8H_qt80Ms&s=Z170hlPZgPTo9kamr5O2JB7PcGOkfoLyrIZ4VPMQ8_U&e=. Then,
I noticed that this version of Boost contains only python 3.7 library
because the filenames under C:\local\boost_1_68_0\lib64-msvc-14.0 are only
boost_python37-vc140-mt-.... This caused errors from building a third-party
library which tries to link Boost python 2.7 library (i.e., tries to find
file boost_python27-vc140-mt-...) . So what is matter? Does Boost decide to
stop supporting python 2.7 since version 1.68.0, or is Boost python 2.7
library located somewhere else using some hard-to-recognize filename? I'm
using Windows 10, VS2015 and have only python 2.7 installed. Thank you for
your help with this issue.