Written by Natesh Narain
on June 09, 2017

Building Boost with Visual Studio 2017

So I feel like I make a lot of posts about how to build Boost… Anyways..

The issue is that the Boost.Build system does not support building the current version of Visual Studio.

Here’s how to work around that.

Build Boost with Visual Studio 2017

Download and extract Boost. Currently I’m using Boost 1.64
Navigate to Boost directory
Run bootstrap

    /> bootstrap

Open project-config.jam and edit the file to the following

import option ;

using msvc : 14.0 : "c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.10.25017\bin\HostX86\x86\cl.exe";

option.set keep-going : false ;

Ensure the path to cl matches what is on your system.

Build Boost

    /> b2 toolset=msvc-14.0 address-model=32 architecture=x86 link=static threading=multi stage

Optional: CMake

    /> cd /path/to/project && mkdir build && cd build
    /> cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 14" -DBoost_USE_STATIC_LIBS=ON -DBoost_USE_MULTITHREADED=ON

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