How to build Boost 1.60 with Visual Studio 2015
C++ Boost 1.60 library can be downloaded from http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_60_0.html.
C++ Boost 1.60 library can be downloaded from http://www.boost.org/users/history/version_1_60_0.html.
If you try to build Boost 1.58 with Visual Studio 2015, you’ll get this error “Unknown compiler version - please run the configure tests and report the results
” when building, do this.
At my day time job I decided we should try out Visual Studio 2015 (from Visual Studio 2013).
This post describes building of boost library with Visual Studio 2013.
Visual Studio or VS is my weapon of choice.
Visual Studio character set encoding is not only important for representation of local character sets. It’s also an important factor that will let you compile different libraries together. If you are using many different libraries you must decide what character set your project should use.
To see compile times in Microsoft Visual Studio we need to change visual studio build output verbosity and visual studio build log verbosity settings.
IPP files are implementation files that are meant to be included in header files .hpp. They are useful when we work with templates. All template methods need to be defined in the header. Moving templates to .ipp-extention files makes it possible to logically separate template implementations.
Extract the sources to some folder, open the command prompt and go to that directory.
When I get this error, it’s always because I’ve opened the debugging process in Process Explorer.