28 Nov
2017
28 Nov
'17
1:38 p.m.
Olaf van der Spek wrote:
libboost_system-vc141-mt-gd-x32-1_66.lib
Why is this named x32? AFAIK the normal name is x86.
The suffix is determined by the first letter of the `architecture` Boost.Build property (x86, arm, mips, sparc) concatenated with the `address-model` property (32, 64). Could have gone with the full arch, like x86_32 and x86_64 (and arm_32 and arm_64), but we already have a problem with paths on Windows, no need to make it worse. And people would have complained anyway because it should be "aarch64" instead and so on.