Boost doesn't build with Visual C++ 2015

[Russell Wallace <russell.wallace@…>]

Trying to build Boost with Visual C++ 2015 fails with an error message: can't find header file corecrt.h. It turns out that Visual C++ has changed the location of some header files in this release. The batch file vcvarsall.bat correctly sets the new path, but it looks like the Boost build program b2 makes its own guess at paths, and that guess was derived from earlier versions of Visual C++ and is no longer accurate?

[jarek]

Same on me: address-model=32 makes errors while address-model=64 compiles fine.

compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\locale\build\msvc-14.0\release\link-static\threading-m
ulti\std\std_backend.obj
std_backend.cpp
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\INCLUDE\crtdefs.h(10): fa
tal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'corecrt.h': No such file or director
y
...failed updating 123 targets...
...skipped 32 targets...


C:\Users\Jarek\Documents\3rd-Party\boost_1_59_0>b2 -j8 --toolset=msvc-14.0 address-model=32 --build-type=complete stage

[anonymous]

You can pass a include= parameter to b2, so something like b2 ... include="C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Include\10.0.10150.0\ucrt" ... stage

[abrarov@…]

I used the way described ​here:

1. Got to user's temp folder (%TEMP%).
2. Delete all b2_*.cmd files.