Build boost lib without VS

ernst maurer

Hello, I'm using Windows SDK for building an applications without Visual Studio I've tried to build boost lib using "bootstrap.bat" from installation folder but got an error: "program can't start because mspdb100.dll is missing..." I see that dll is from VS installation. do you how I can build boost without VS but using WinSDK free commandline compiler tools only?

jschell

As a note there is a boost forum at the boost site. But possible solutions 1. You do have the library. So find it and then set the lib path. 2. You do not have the library but there is a MS source for it. Find it, download it, set the lib path. 3. It only exists in Visual Studio. a. So buy Visual Studio b. Find the code that uses that library, and use a macro to remove it. Remove the lib dependency.

Code o mat

Additionally to jschell's 3a point: you can try with Visual Studio Express[^], it is free but has limitations (like no MFC).

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CPallini

You could install Visual C++ Express Edition (it's free) for getting such library. See: "[FFmpeg-user] where to get mspdb100.dll file"[^].

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