On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:49 AM, Robert Ramey
d) Boost Build ... * it's almost impossible to integrate with and IDE. At one time, I had things setup so I could debug executables created with boost build with the Visual Studio IDE and debugger. But it was just too fragile and time consuming to keep everything in sync.
Not sure about your specific situation, but I use Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 and I have no trouble at all debugging executables built with Boost.Build. Just choose File->Open->Project/Solution and then select the .exe file from the bin/ directory or wherever it is. It will create a new temporary solution and project with nothing but the executable in it, you have to manually open files (I drag from a separate Explorer window). But you can set breakpoints and step and have full source code debugging.