bootstrap.bat fails for boost/trunk for msvc11 on windows7

[Joachim Faulhaber]

After installing visual studio 2012 release candidate on a new machine, a call of bootstrap.bat for boost/trunk failed:

• Platform: windows7
• Compiler: msvc-11.0 release candidate
• Boost version: trunk (1.52.0)

  C:\Users\jofa\dev\boost\trunk>bootstrap.bat
  Building Boost.Build engine
  
  Failed to build Boost.Build engine.
  Please consult bootstrap.log for furter diagnostics.
  
  You can try to obtain a prebuilt binary from
  
     http://sf.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=72941
  
  Also, you can file an issue at http://svn.boost.org
  Please attach bootstrap.log in that case. 
  

[Vladimir Prus]

From the log, it seems that when we run "cl", it is unable to find even most basic C headers. Does it actually work from the command line at all?

[Joachim Faulhaber]

Ok,

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\bin
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE

were missing from the path variable. After adding them, I can call "cl" from the command line. Still bootstrap.bat fails with the same bootstrap.log. cl can not find ctype.h which should be found in e.g.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\include

Regards, Joachim

[Joachim Faulhaber]

It looks as if the installation of msvc-11 rc on my machine is corrupt or incomplete. It's probably not a boost build problem. I'm trying a reinstallation. ...

[Joachim Faulhaber]

... Problem solved after reinstallation. Sorry for the ticket.