Could someone tell me a command line switch for bjam or something else that will make boost compile with VS2010 using the new Windows Platform SDK 7.1 toolchain? It's an option you can set in a normal visual studio project. The default is v100 a variant of the platform 7.0 toolchain. Thanks in advance.
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A:
To build boost 1.43.0 libraries for VS 2010:
- Download and extract to C:\Temp\boost_1_43_0
- Start Visual Studio 2010 Command Prompt
- Build BJam
cd C:\Temp\boost_1_43_0\tools\jam\src
build.bat
- Build Boost using BJam
cd C:\Temp\boost_1_43_0
tools\jam\src\bin.ntx86\bjam.exe --with-regex link=static runtime-link=static threading=multi variant=debug,release address-model=32,64
- Check bin.v2 or stage/lib for output. Note naming conventions.
May need to build in two phases with just address-model=32 then with just address-model=64. In this case we are choosing to build libs that statically link to the C runtime and to statically link to the boost lib itself.
Use --with to build non-header based libs like regex. Note stage/lib will be overwritten after each address-model build, but all libs are always kept in bin.v2.
Sean Fausett
2010-09-14 07:05:11
Just noticed boost 1.44 is out. I specified boost 1.43 because that's what I built using the above not too long ago.
Sean Fausett
2010-09-14 07:27:34
Thanks for the general info on boost and Visual Studio but that is not quite what I was asking. I was asking specifically how to make bjam use Windows Platform SDK 7.1 toolchain as the default is v100 a variant of Platform SDK 7.0a. Thanks.
Aaron Stainback
2010-09-14 07:51:52
A:
Try this in your environment
set SdkTools=c:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin
call "%SdkTools%\SetEnv.Cmd" /xp /x86
assuming that's where you have the Windows SDK installed. Info is from here - there may be more to do, but this looks on the right track to me.
Steve Townsend
2010-09-15 20:34:43