dominoc925: How I build Boost for 64 bit Windows

Monday, April 29, 2013

How I build Boost for 64 bit Windows

I decided to build liblas binaries for 64 bit Windows since I could not easily find the 64-bit binaries. One of the prerequisites include boost. However, I had some difficulty getting 64-bit Boost binaries and header files, and the official Boost 64 bit installer seems to have x86 libraries included somehow causing me linking errors while building liblas. So I decided to compile Boost for x64 myself for liblas. The following steps are what I did to get Boost to compile.

Download the latest Boost source code from Sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/. Extract the files to a folder e.g. C:\Work\src\boost_1_52_0\.
On the Windows desktop, select Start | All Programs | Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 | Visual Studio Tools | Visual Studio x64 Win64 Command Prompt.

The Visual Studio x64 Win64 Command Prompt appears.
In the Command Prompt, change directory to the extracted Boost source code folder e.g.

C:\> cd \Work\src\boost_1_52_0
In the Command Prompt, run the bootstrap.bat.

C:\> bootstrap.bat

Bootstrapping is done.
In the Command Prompt, run b2.exe.

C:\> b2 --toolset=msvc-10.0 architecture=x86 address-model=64 stage

The Boost C++ libraries are built.

3 comments:

Unknown said...: hi ,

thank you for the helpful tutorial

quick question why are u setting the architecture as x86 not x64

thank you for your prompt reply; October 9, 2015 at 8:37 PM
dominoc925 said...: hi there, that was a long time ago and my memory fades... It was probably to indicate Intel chips since there was no x64 option for that parameter.; October 9, 2015 at 9:47 PM
Mritula said...: HI Thanks for the code.

we get a page of error like this "...failed compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-10.0\debug\address-model-64\architecture-x86\link-static\threading-multi\cpplexer\re2clex\cpp_re.obj...
...skipped libboost_wave-vc100-mt-gd-1_62.lib for lack of instantiate_cpp_exprgrammar.obj...
...skipped libboost_wave-vc100-mt-gd-1_62.lib for lack of libboost_wave-vc100-mt-gd-1_62.lib...
...failed updating 490 targets...
...skipped 300 targets..."

Do we need to go install boost libraries manually?; April 20, 2018 at 8:32 PM