On 15 October 2017 at 12:11, Konstantin Ivlev via Boost < boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:

what was an error in your case?

Loads, just not right...

also, what was the boost version? there are many patches for Clang build in develop not yet released in 1.65.1.

1.65.1 with some stuff from develop that allows boost to be compiled with std=c++17 using vc15.4.

I was able to build with the following config: =============start=============== using clang : 5.0 : "C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/clang.exe" : <compileflags>-fmsc-version=1910 <compileflags>-DBOOST_USE_WINAPI_VERSION=0x0502 <compileflags>-DBOOST_USE_WINDOWS_H=1 <compileflags>-D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0502 <compileflags>-DNOMINMAX <ranlib>"C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/llvm-ranlib.exe" <archiver>"C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/llvm-ar.exe" <linkflags>-fuse-ld=lld ; ==============end===============

I tried many things, but in some of those trials <ranlib>"C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/llvm-ranlib.exe" <archiver>"C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/llvm-ar.exe" being not defined was causing trouble, so I am gonna give that a try and get back how it went. You could give the latest snapshot build http://llvm.org/builds/ a try with <linkflags>-flto=thin added and see what it brings for you. It seems impossible to build your app from the VS IDE though (the passing of -flto=thin doesn't work somehow), but from the command line it gives exellent results. I would like to thank you for your post. degski -- "*Ihre sogenannte Religion wirkt bloß wie ein Opiat reizend, betäubend, Schmerzen aus Schwäche stillend.*" - Novalis 1798

I do use clang on Windows with bjam and it works (until it doesn't). This 'C:/Program' looks like problem patched by this commit - https://github.com/boostorg/build/commit/c442d64b30a585ca114a1cb8c5ed8b33a93... So you might need to use develop BB. Here is my site-config.jam (you probably won't need all the stuff): using clang : : "C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/clang.exe" : #<compileflags>-fmsc-version=1910 <ranlib>"C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/llvm-ranlib.exe" <archiver>"C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/llvm-ar.exe" <rc>"C:/Program Files (x86)/Windows Kits/10/bin/10.0.15063.0/x64/rc.exe" <linkflags>-fuse-ld=lld <linkflags>-llibcmtd <cxxflags>-Wno-gnu-string-literal-operator-template <cxxflags>-Xclang <cxxflags>-flto-visibility-public-std <cxxflags>-fno-ms-compatibility <cxxflags>-fno-delayed-template-parsing <cxxflags>-Wno-dynamic-exception-spec # TODO: file bug to MS <cxxflags>-Wno-c++11-narrowing # TODO: wut <cxxflags>-D_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS # TODO: wut <cxxflags>-std=c++2a <cxxflags>-Wunused-command-line-argument <cxxflags>-DBOOST_USE_WINDOWS_H <cxxflags>-DBOOST_NO_ANSI_APIS <cxxflags>-D_DEBUG <cxxflags>-gcodeview <cxxflags>-D_MT <cxxflags>-D_WIN32 <cxxflags>-DNOMINMAX <cxxflags>-DWIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN <cxxflags>-D_HAS_AUTO_PTR_ETC=1 <cxxflags>-D_ITERATOR_DEBUG_LEVEL=0 <cxxflags>-D_CRT_DECLARE_NONSTDC_NAMES=1 # clang defines __STDC__, cl does not (see definition of _CRT_INTERNAL_NONSTDC_NAMES) <cxxflags>-IC:/PROGRA~2/MICROS~1/2017/COMMUN~1/VC/Tools/MSVC/1411~1.255/atlmfc/include <linkflags>-LC:/PROGRA~2/MICROS~1/2017/COMMUN~1/VC/Tools/MSVC/1411~1.255/atlmfc/lib/x64 ; It only works for x64 debug, so invocation is: b2.exe -sBOOST_ROOT=B:\boost\ --build-dir=O:\out --disable-icu -j16 link=static runtime-link=static address-model=64 toolset=clang variant=debug Rene told us he is going to do things for clang on Windows, so there is always hope. 2017-10-15 15:12 GMT+03:00 degski via Boost :

On 15 October 2017 at 12:32, degski wrote:

...

... so I am gonna give that a try and get back how it went.

Ok, tried that, (I think as before), this is the first clue something is wong (with quotes, obviously):

C:\boost_1_65_1>bjam -d0 --clean 'C:/Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

So obviously a f'in 'quotes'-problem.

This then later causes the same problem with <ranlib>"C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/llvm-ranlib.exe" <archiver>"C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/llvm-ar.exe". I see in boost-build (the folder I'm building in) that source files get compiled to *.obj (they exist), but they do not get assembled into a lib, because the tool-chain's exe's can't be found, due to missing quotes (that are there), wtf?

========config-project.jam=======================

import option ;

using clang : 6.0 : "C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/clang++.exe" : <compileflags>-fmsc-version=1911 <compileflags>-DBOOST_USE_WINAPI_VERSION=0x1000 <compileflags>-DBOOST_USE_WINDOWS_H=1 <compileflags>-D_WIN32_WINNT=0x1000 <compileflags>-DNOMINMAX <ranlib>"C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/llvm-ranlib.exe" <archiver>"C:/Program Files/LLVM/bin/llvm-ar.exe" <linkflags>-fuse-ld=lld <linkflags>-flto=thin ;

option.set keep-going : false ;

===========================================

It's an ansi codepage 850 txt file, just in case (I checked).

The quotes *are* there [in the file] of course, so I don't get it...

degski

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On 16 October 2017 at 13:09, degski wrote:

This together with (most of) your project-config.jam led to success (almost), stacktrace didn't build (but maybe it cannot) and math didn't build, I'll check the log, why math failed to build (but, that's not an immediate concern)!

On closer inspection, regex doesn't build with clang either, while stracktrace also fails with msvc. degski -- "*Ihre sogenannte Religion wirkt bloß wie ein Opiat reizend, betäubend, Schmerzen aus Schwäche stillend.*" - Novalis 1798