Question

I’m trying to build the Boost 1_52 library with VS2012. Everything is building fine except for the Date Time dll (boost_date_time-vc110-mt-1_52.dll).

I’m using B2.exe as shown below
b2.exe toolset=msvc-11.0 –build-type=complete stage debug-symbols=on debug-store=database –abbreviate-paths

I’ve tried using cxxflags=”/Y- ” because I get other out of date PDB errors, this didn’t change anything. I’ve tried setting Zm100, again no change.

When it gets to the gregorian section, I get a number of failures like shown below

common.mkdir bin.v2\libs\date_time\build\msvc-11.0\debug\debug-store-database\threading-multi
common.mkdir bin.v2\libs\date_time\build\msvc-11.0\debug\debug-store-database\threading-multi\gregorian
compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\date_time\build\msvc-11.0\debug\debug-store-database\threading-multi\gregorian\greg_month.obj
greg_month.cpp
libs\date_time\src\gregorian\greg_month.cpp : fatal error C1033: cannot open program database ‘d:\boost\source\boost_1_52_0\gregorian\greg_month.pdb’

call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 >nul

cl /Zm800 -nologo @”bin.v2\libs\date_time\build\msvc-11.0\debug\debug-store-database\threading-multi\gregorian\greg_month.obj.rsp”

Answer 1

The problem is that the build is trying to place the .pdb files for some object files of the date_time library in a non-existent directory.

You can work around the problem by doing:

md gregorian

before performing the build so the directory exists.

I’m not sure yet what the real fix is since the boost build system is more or less a black box to me.