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Noxalus edited this page Oct 13, 2012 · 3 revisions
  • Change directory to boost_1_51_0\tools\build\v2
  • execute bootstrap.bat
  • copy b2.exe back to boost_1_51_0 dir
  • change directory to boost_1_51_0
  • execute b2

For boost v1.49, we have to use the VS command prompt !

If you look at boost/detail/utf8_codecvt_facet.hpp, you'll see:

#if !defined(__MSL_CPP__) && !defined(__LIBCOMO__)
    #define BOOST_CODECVT_DO_LENGTH_CONST const
#else
    #define BOOST_CODECVT_DO_LENGTH_CONST
#endif

If you change (in your copy) to replace all five of those lines with:

    #define BOOST_CODECVT_DO_LENGTH_CONST

then it should work with VS2012 (but not with VS2011).

Please file a bug so that will remember to fix it (permanently) for the next boost release.

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