https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9488 <p> I just ran into a really strange bug... Attemptign to install boost to be available to Visual Studio Express 2012, I attempted a the following method of install: </p> <p> 1) Open a Visual Studio command prompt. From the start menu it's: All Programs|Microsoft Visual Studio 11|Native x64 Command Prompt. 2) Unzip boost_1_48_0.zip and set the working directory to boost_1_48_0 3) run bootstrap.bat 4) run bjam.exe </p> <p> All went well until I ran bjam.exe. I got to the "Building the Boost C++ Libraries" and then doskey crashed repeatedly. </p> <p> I have doskey being run everytime an instance of cmd.exe, is executed (via a batch script in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor: reg_sz <a class="missing wiki">AutoRun</a>). If I remove doskey from the <a class="missing wiki">AutoRun</a> script, the crash does not occur. </p> <p> The would make sense if bjam.exe was calling processes via cmd.exe, which seems like odd practice (I think). </p> en-us /htdocs/site/boost.png https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9488 Trac 1.4.3 Matt <matthewbrown@…> Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:32:08 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9488 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9488 <ul> <li><strong>attachment</strong> → <span class="trac-field-new">cmd_start.txt</span> </li> </ul> Ticket Steven Watanabe Wed, 12 Mar 2014 03:31:23 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9488#comment:1 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/9488#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> <span class="trac-field-old">new</span> → <span class="trac-field-new">closed</span> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> → <span class="trac-field-new">wontfix</span> </li> </ul> <p> The updating commands are interpreted as batch scripts on Windows, which need to be run using cmd.exe. (Other platforms use /bin/sh). I don't think there's any way we can work around this in Boost.Build. </p> Ticket