diff --git a/ports/boost-modular-build-helper/CMakeLists.txt b/ports/boost-modular-build-helper/CMakeLists.txt
index dfc10343a7f519..12f975b4568e25 100644
--- a/ports/boost-modular-build-helper/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/ports/boost-modular-build-helper/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -130,6 +130,13 @@ string(STRIP "${CFLAGS}" CFLAGS)
 string(REGEX REPLACE "[ \t\r\n]+" " " LDFLAGS "${LDFLAGS}")
 string(STRIP "${LDFLAGS}" LDFLAGS)
 
+# When building a static lib with MSVC, you need to use archiveflags instead of linkflags.
+# This is set via the b2 command line since putting <archiveflags> in the user-config.jam
+# file doesn't seem to work like it does for <linkflags>.
+if(MSVC AND NOT BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
+    list(APPEND B2_OPTIONS "\"archiveflags=${LDFLAGS}\"")
+endif()
+
 if(NOT CXXFLAGS STREQUAL "")
     string(REPLACE " " " <cxxflags>" CXXFLAGS "<cxxflags>${CXXFLAGS}")
 endif()
diff --git a/ports/boost-modular-build-helper/vcpkg.json b/ports/boost-modular-build-helper/vcpkg.json
index 31ea55e28933e1..e4c24ad9110422 100644
--- a/ports/boost-modular-build-helper/vcpkg.json
+++ b/ports/boost-modular-build-helper/vcpkg.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "boost-modular-build-helper",
   "version": "1.78.0",
-  "port-version": 2,
+  "port-version": 3,
   "description": "Internal vcpkg port used to build Boost libraries",
   "dependencies": [
     "boost-uninstall",
diff --git a/versions/b-/boost-modular-build-helper.json b/versions/b-/boost-modular-build-helper.json
index e45e0fbada2b09..3a925e31999dc4 100644
--- a/versions/b-/boost-modular-build-helper.json
+++ b/versions/b-/boost-modular-build-helper.json
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 {
   "versions": [
+    {
+      "git-tree": "4211622aebc0f2bbaaee3edab6dcbc755d1cac26",
+      "version": "1.78.0",
+      "port-version": 3
+    },
     {
       "git-tree": "9400b3bfdc93a165b3b509a76c59107c020113a6",
       "version": "1.78.0",
diff --git a/versions/baseline.json b/versions/baseline.json
index 715f5d82aee1cc..784c686eb3715e 100644
--- a/versions/baseline.json
+++ b/versions/baseline.json
@@ -822,7 +822,7 @@
     },
     "boost-modular-build-helper": {
       "baseline": "1.78.0",
-      "port-version": 2
+      "port-version": 3
     },
     "boost-move": {
       "baseline": "1.78.0",