On Sun, Jul 9, 2017 at 1:04 AM, Marshall Clow via Boost-users < boost-users@lists.boost.org> wrote:

The release candidates for the 1.61.0 release are now available at:

https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/beta/boost_1_65_0_beta1_rc1.7z https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/beta/boost_1_65_0_beta1_rc1.tar.bz2 https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/beta/boost_1_65_0_beta1_rc1.tar.gz https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/beta/boost_1_65_0_beta1_rc1.zip

The SHA256 checksums are as follows:

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As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.

B2 fails immediately (showstopper!!!) on windows for all tested visual studio compilers (8.0-14.1) when running with --build-type=complete, such as: b2 -j%NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS% --without-mpi --build-type=complete toolset=msvc-8.0 address-model=32 architecture=x86 --prefix=.\ --libdir=lib32-msvc-8.0 --includedir=garbage_headers install with the error: error: link=shared together with runtime-link=static is not allowed error: such property combination is either impossible error: or too dangerious to be of any use