Building Boost Library using Visual Studio 2017

Building Boost with VS 2017.md

1. Download and Extract Boost
2. Run bootstrap.bat
3. Open generated project-config.jam and add path to MSVC 2017 like below

import option ; 
 
using msvc : 14.0 : "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.10.25017\bin\HostX86\x86\cl.exe"; 
 
option.set keep-going : false ; 

4. Open Developer Command Prompt for VS2017, Go to boost directory and run b2 toolset=msvc-14.0 address-model=32

For 2017 its:
14.1 not 14.0

where is bootstrap.bat located ?

where is bootstrap.bat located ?

In the root directory and in the tools\build directory of the boost source

jonpchin is correct. I have Visual Studio Community 2017 and for boost/thread to link correctly it requires libboost_thread-vc141-mt-gd-x32-1_66.lib so it is 14.1 not 14.0

Note that when you call bootstrap.bat from within the VC2017 command prompt there is no need to modify project-config.jam