64-bit version of Boost for 64-bit windows

Question

Is there a version of 64-bit Boost library for VS2008 ? Or do I have to compile one myself? if, so, does anyone have experience with it?

Answer 1

As a short answer:

bjam --toolset=msvc-9.0 address-model=64 --build-type=complete

As a longer answer, here are my build notes for having VS .NET 2008 32-bit and 64-bit boost libraries in the same hierarchy (which is I suspect a common use case):

1. Build the win32 binaries

   bjam --toolset=msvc-9.0 --build-type=complete stage
   

2. Create the directory lib\win32

3. Move the contents of stage\lib to lib\win32
4. Remove the directories bin.v2 and stage

5. Build the x64 binaries

   bjam --toolset=msvc-9.0 address-model=64 --build-type=complete stage
   

6. Create the directory lib\x64

7. Move the contents of stage\lib to lib\x64
8. Remove the directories bin.v2 and stage

Answer 2

I've got the built binaries on my site: http://boost.teeks99.com

Edit 2013-05-13: My builds are now available (starting from 1.53) directly from the sourceforge page.

Answer 3

UPDATE(19.09.2017): added script lines for VS2017. Please be aware that Boost supports VS2017 compiler from a certain version above. I used the latest version (1.65.1).

I used this scripts for building boost for x64 and x86 platforms, lib and dll, debug and release for VS2017, VS2015 and VS2013:

md stage\VS2017\x64
md stage\VS2015\x64
md stage\VS2013\x64    

b2 --stagedir=./stage/VS2017/x64 address-model=64 --build-type=complete --toolset=msvc-14.1 --threading=multi --runtime-link=shared --variant=debug
b2 --stagedir=./stage/VS2017/x64 address-model=64 --build-type=complete --toolset=msvc-14.1 --threading=multi --runtime-link=shared --variant=release  

b2 --stagedir=./stage/VS2015/x64 address-model=64 --build-type=complete --toolset=msvc-14.0 --threading=multi --runtime-link=shared --variant=debug
b2 --stagedir=./stage/VS2015/x64 address-model=64 --build-type=complete --toolset=msvc-14.0 --threading=multi --runtime-link=shared --variant=release

b2 --stagedir=./stage/VS2013/x64 address-model=64 --build-type=complete --toolset=msvc-12.0 --threading=multi --runtime-link=shared --variant=debug
b2 --stagedir=./stage/VS2013/x64 address-model=64 --build-type=complete --toolset=msvc-12.0 --threading=multi --runtime-link=shared --variant=release


md stage\VS2017\win32
md stage\VS2015\win32
md stage\VS2013\win32

b2 --stagedir=./stage/VS2017/win32 --build-type=complete --toolset=msvc-14.1 --threading=multi --runtime-link=shared --variant=debug
b2 --stagedir=./stage/VS2017/win32 --build-type=complete --toolset=msvc-14.1 --threading=multi --runtime-link=shared --variant=release

b2 --stagedir=./stage/VS2015/win32 --build-type=complete --toolset=msvc-14.0 --threading=multi --runtime-link=shared --variant=debug
b2 --stagedir=./stage/VS2015/win32 --build-type=complete --toolset=msvc-14.0 --threading=multi --runtime-link=shared --variant=release

b2 --stagedir=./stage/VS2013/win32 --build-type=complete --toolset=msvc-12.0 --threading=multi --runtime-link=shared --variant=debug
b2 --stagedir=./stage/VS2013/win32 --build-type=complete --toolset=msvc-12.0 --threading=multi --runtime-link=shared --variant=release

pause

You can make a .bat file and run it for building your boost binaries.

Answer 4

At this moment, the 64-bits binaries provided by teeks99 (see other answer) appear to be the only free 64-bits binaries around. For a while, BoostPro also provided 64-bits binaries, but as of 1.51 they appear to be out or business.

So, there we're back to two options again: the teeks99 binaries, or building your own.

Most of the information I needed to build my own was here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/2655683/613288

The only thing missing was how to get this to work with the free version of Visual Studio 2010 Express. I found that missing part somewhere else, and after some customization the final recipe I used for my build of the boost 1.49.0 binaries was:

Start Visual C++, and from the Tools menu start Visual Studio Command Prompt.

In the console window, do the following:

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\setenv.cmd"  /Release  /x64

and then in the boost directory:

bootstrap.bat
b2  -a  -sBZIP2_SOURCE="C:\bzip2-1.0.6"   -sZLIB_SOURCE="C:\zlib-1.2.5"   --toolset=msvc-10.0  architecture=x86  address-model=64  link=static  --with-date_time  --with-filesystem  --with-serialization  --with-test  --with-thread  --with-system  --with-regex  --with-iostreams  stage

The last command is customized for what I happened to need (just some statically linked libraries).

Answer 5

I made me a small script which compiles them all for VS2005 and VS2008:

md stage\lib\win32
md stage\lib\x64

REM Visual Studio 2005
bjam --toolset=msvc-8.0 --build-type=complete stage
move /Y stage\lib\* stage\lib\win32\

bjam --toolset=msvc-8.0 address-model=64 --build-type=complete stage
move /Y stage\lib\* stage\lib\x64\

REM Visual Studio 2008
bjam --toolset=msvc-9.0 --build-type=complete stage
move /Y stage\lib\* stage\lib\win32\

bjam --toolset=msvc-9.0 address-model=64 --build-type=complete stage
move /Y stage\lib\* stage\lib\x64\