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JWWalker
JWWalker

Reputation: 22707

bootstrap boost with Visual Studio 2013 hangs

I want to build Boost 1_54_0 under Windows 7 using Visual Studio 2013. I opened a VS 2013 command prompt, cd'd into the boost_1_54_0 directory, and said bootstrap. I saw a message "Building Boost.Build engine", and then no indication of progress for hours. I couldn't find any way to abort the process, so I rebooted. Then I opened bootstrap.log, and the last thing in there is this:

C:\Code\boost_1_54_0_full\boost_1_54_0\tools\build\v2\engine>.\bootstrap\jam0 -f build.jam --toolset=vc10 "--toolset-root=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools....\VC\ " clean

That "Visual Studio 10.0" means it's actually trying to compile using the Visual Studio 2010 tools rather than 2013, right?

What am I doing wrong?

EDIT: for the record, I had 2 problems. One was the problem with Boost that was fixed by using the version from svn. The other was that VS 2013 provides 3 command prompt shortcuts:

  1. Developer Command Prompt for VS2013
  2. VS2013 x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt
  3. VS2013 x86 Native Tools Command Prompt

Since I was trying to build 32-bit libraries, something with "x64" in the name seemed like the least logical choice to try, but it turned out to be the only one that worked.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 656

Answers (1)

Michael Simbirsky
Michael Simbirsky

Reputation: 3103

First of all, Boost 1.54 and even 1.55 is not compatible with VS 2013 because VS was released after these Boost releases. You can take a compatible version at the Boost SVN.

See also the discussion here: How do I build boost with new Visual Studio 2013 preview?

Upvotes: 1

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