How do I build boost with Visual Studio 2008 when I have multiple Visual Studio versions installed?

c++ visual-studio-2008 visual-c++ boost bjam
Tim picture Tim · Aug 2, 2012 · Viewed 7.1k times · Source

I know how to build boost with the latest visual studio on my machine (this question, for example)

However, I need to build the libs for Visual Studio 2008 (vc9)

I tried using toolset=vc9 but I get problems/no success.

How can I build the libs for vc9?

After I run boostrap I try running

b2 toolset=vc9

but the output is:

C:/Development/boost 50/boost_1_50_0/boost_1_50_0/tools/build/v2/build\toolset.jam:39: in toolset.using rule vc9.init unknown in module toolset

C:/Development/boost 50/boost_1_50_0/boost_1_50_0/tools/build/v2\build-system.jam:481: in process-explicit-toolset-requests

C:/Development/boost 50/boost_1_50_0/boost_1_50_0/tools/build/v2\build-system.jam:562: in load

C:\Development\boost 50\boost_1_50_0\boost_1_50_0\tools\build\v2/kernel\modules.jam:283: in import

C:\Development\boost 50\boost_1_50_0\boost_1_50_0\tools\build\v2/kernel/bootstrap.jam:142: in boost-build

C:\Development\boost 50\boost_1_50_0\boost_1_50_0\boost-build.jam:17: in module scope

Answer

user1726157 picture user1726157 · Oct 27, 2012

toolset=msvc-9.0

I have VS2008-Pro and VS2010-Express installed. The default ran with VS2010. Setting toolset=msvc-9.0 caused the build to run with VS2008. Using Boost 1.51.0.

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