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.
"	Bugs	new	To Be Determined	build	Boost 1.44.0	Problem