id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 4148 bootstrap.bat generates project-config.jam file as Unicode (UTF-16) Sorin Sbarnea Vladimir Prus "On modern Windows (that is using Unicode console by default) the bootstrap.bat generates project-config.jam file as Unicode (UTF-16). Boost is not able to read this file and is writing: project-config.jam:1: syntax error at EOF Solution is to modify bootstrap.bat to force the generation of ASCII file instead of Unicode: Old line: ECHO using %toolset% ; > project-config.jam New line: cmd /a /c ECHO using %toolset% ; > project-config.jam This small change will force the usage of ANSI output. Reference: http://www.netikka.net/tsneti/info/tscmd028.htm#ansivsunicode cmd /a /c echo using %toolset% ; > project-config.jam " Bugs new Boost 1.43.0 build Boost 1.42.0 Problem