Building Boost 1.66.0 - probable user error
I must be getting old. Building Boost used to be so much easier. I suspect I have missed something in the doc. I downloaded 1.66.0. This is for Win8.1 and MSVC 2017. From a command line bootstrap finally worked to get b2 although there were complaints about some of the options. Running b2 fails. I used to do .\b2 --prefix=xxx toolset=msvc --build-type=complete stage Almost verbatim from the Getting Started doc. stage is not a target is the error. As far as I know the only way to find targets is to wander through .jam files (finding targets was always difficult as far back as 1.27 as I recollect). Any idea what I missed and where? Larry
AMDG On 03/15/2018 07:48 PM, Larry via Boost-users wrote:
I must be getting old. Building Boost used to be so much easier. I suspect I have missed something in the doc.
I downloaded 1.66.0. This is for Win8.1 and MSVC 2017. From a command line bootstrap finally worked to get b2 although there were complaints about some of the options. Running b2 fails. I used to do
.\b2 --prefix=xxx toolset=msvc --build-type=complete stage
Are you running this command from the top level directory? The error indicates that you're probably running it in some other directory.
Almost verbatim from the Getting Started doc. stage is not a target is the error. As far as I know the only way to find targets is to wander through .jam files (finding targets was always difficult as far back as 1.27 as I recollect).
Any idea what I missed and where?
In Christ, Steven Watanabe
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