John,

Very helpful.  Thank you.

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:28 PM, John Maddock <boost.regex@virgin.net> wrote:
Programs written in VC++ 2012 or 2013 will only run on Windows XP or
Windows 2003 when you choose the 'Windows XP (v120_xp)' toolset option in
the IDE.

Is there some way to set this option from Bjam?

P.S.  A Stack Overflow user indicated that he got Boost to build under VC++
2012.  I tried his solution under VC++ 2013 but it did not work for some
reason completely unknown to me.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27695187/modify-visual-c-vcvars32-bat-to-target-xp-platform

Apparently, VC++ 2012/2013 use the Windows 8 SDK and the solution above
causes you to use the Windows 7 SDK which is compatible with XP and Windows
2003.

See the end of http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/10/08/windows-xp-targeting-with-c-in-visual-studio-2012.aspx

HTH, John.
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