id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
5155,Boost build can exceed Windows max path length limit,anonymous,Vladimir Prus,"I have been building boost successfully on Windows since 1.33. I usually extract boost do a directory such as:

d:\boost_1_44_0

With 1.44, for the first time I noticed that some binaries were (silently) failing to appear in the build directory. Viewing the build directories, I suspected we were exceeding the windows path limit (256?).

When I renamed to root folder to d:\b, the build suceeded.

I'm afraid I didn't keep the build log, but kept the build command:

bjam toolset=msvc-10.0 link=static runtime-link=static,shared variant=""debug,release"" threading=""multi"" define=""_SECURE_SCL=0"" debug-symbols=""on"" debug-store=database address-model=64 pch=off

I suspect its the long list of options that have extended the path length.

Platform: Windows 7 x64 Enterprise.
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