I've built the x86 Boost libraries many times, but I can't seem to build x64 libraries. I start the "Visual Studio 2005 x64 Cross Tools Command Prompt" and run my usual build:
bjam --toolset=msvc --build-type=complete --build-dir=c:\build install
But it still produces x86 .lib files (I verified this with dumpbin /headers). What am I doing wrong?
Right-click example in the Solution Explorer pane and select Properties from the resulting pop-up menu. In Configuration Properties > Linker > Additional Library Directories, enter the path to the Boost binaries, e.g. C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_62_0\lib\. From the Build menu, select Build Solution.
Go to the directory tools/build/. Run bootstrap.sh. Run b2 install --prefix=PREFIX where PREFIX is the directory where you want Boost. Build to be installed.
The installers supplied by BoostPro Computing will download and install pre-compiled binaries into the lib\ subdirectory of the boost root, typically C:\Program Files\boost\boost_1_49_0\lib\. If you installed all variants of the Boost.
You need to add the address-model=64
parameter.
Look e.g. here.
The accepted answer is correct. Adding this in case somebody else googles this answer and still fails to produce x64 version.
Following is what I had to do to build Boost 1.63 on Visual Studio 15 2017 Community Edition.
Commands executed from VS environment cmd shell. Tools -> Visual Studio Command Prompt
C:\Work\Boost_1_63> C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat amd64
C:\Work\Boost_1_63> bootstrap.bat
C:\Work\Boost_1_63> bjam -j4 architecture=x86 address-model=64 link=static stage
C:\Work\Boost_1_63> bjam --prefix=C:\opt\boost architecture=x86 address-model=64 link=static install
You can verify that the resulting .lib is x64 with dumpbin:
C:\Work> dumpbin /headers C:\work\boost_1_63\stage\lib\libboost_locale-vc140-mt-1_63.lib | findstr machine
8664 machine (x64)
8664 machine (x64)
8664 machine (x64)
8664 machine (x64)
...
With b2 the command is:
b2 --build-dir=build/x64 address-model=64 threading=multi --build-type=complete --stagedir=./stage/x64
It will show default address-model: 32-bit
at the beginning but will still build in 64-bit (how confusing).You should have the dlls created with names such as library-vc140-mt-x64-1_71.dll
confirming it is 64-bit.
source: Building Boost 32-bit and 64-bit libraries on Windows
You may find following Boost.Build property:
address-model=64
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