What's the best way to spend your vacation if not trying to get Boost to build on bleeding-edge compilers. I set out to see how well Boost 1.54.0 behaved on the newly released go-live-ready Visual Studio 2013 Preview. Below is the list of bugs filed against Boost and Microsoft. Enjoy.
Firstly, thanks for the work to support VS2013 so quickly. Much appreciation from here! Can I ask: did you switch on the Boost macros for the new C++11 support in VS2013 to see how those fare? For reference, these are the newly added C++11 features in VS2013 Preview over VS2012: * Default template arguments for function templates * Delegating constructors * Explicit conversion operators * Initializer lists and uniform initialization * Raw string literals * Variadic templates These are coming in the RTM: * Alias templates * Defaulted functions (except for rvalue references v3) * Deleted functions * Non-static data member initializers (NSDMIs) * C99 _Bool * C99 compound literals * C99 designated initializers * C99 variable declarations Apparently with the new variadic template based STL VS2013 is ~10% faster to compile and uses ~20% less memory. C++11 support on VS2013 is of course non-optional, so I guess that's all good for everyone. Niall --- Opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of BlackBerry Inc.