Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #13458: 'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Failed to build Boost.Jam build engine. Please consult bjam.log for furter diagnostics.

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James E. King, III — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:38:22 GMT

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Try running b2.exe from inside a Visual Studio command prompt.

emilio — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:07:40 GMT

FWIW, something similar happened to me as well, when I tried to run b2.exe from a VS Command Prompt: I could run cl.exe from the command line, but b2 was not able to invoke it.

The actual source of the problem was that b2 was an old version of a b2_vcvarsall.bat file that was still in my temp directory and was loading an environment referring to a version of VS that was not available anymore.

Removing that files fixed the issue for me.

James E. King, III — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 17:15:57 GMT

I would also suggest looking for a user-config.jam file and see if the location of the compiler was overridden.

apanas@… — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:39:11 GMT

We had similar problem on Windows and modern boost version (i.e. 1.65) - clearing b2_* files from %temp% helped. Without this page we wouldn't be able to compile it. Thanks for helping, and I think such problem should be fixed in so well known (and one of most used) software.