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Building Boost Library using Visual Studio 2017

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Download and Extract Boost
Run bootstrap.bat
Open generated project-config.jam and add path to MSVC 2017 like below

import option ; 
 
using msvc : 14.0 : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.10.25017\bin\HostX86\x86\cl.exe"; 
 
option.set keep-going : false ;

Open Developer Command Prompt for VS2017, Go to boost directory and run b2 toolset=msvc-14.0 address-model=32

afabri commented May 29, 2018

Note that when you call bootstrap.bat from within the VC2017 command prompt there is no need to modify project-config.jam

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