On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 08:23:01PM +0100, g4@novadsp.com wrote:
Superficially, the numbering 'scheme' bears no resemblance to either names of Visual Studio editions or the version number of the relevant C++ compilers. There was, for example, no VS2011. There was however a 10,12 and 13!
It, however, agrees with the third version scheme in use by Microsoft for Visual Studio. Visual Studio 6 => 6 Visual Studio .NET (2002) => 7.0 Visual Studio 2003 => 7.1 Visual Studio 2005 => 8.0 Visual Studio 2008 => 9.0 Visual Studio 10 => 10.0 Visual Studio 2012 => 11.0 Visual Studio 2013 => 12.0
From around 2010, they started providing toolsets with the names v100, v110, v110_xp, v120, v120_xp, as well as some one-off toolsets like the Nov12/Nov13 CTP ones.
Its these toolset names that Boost maps to. You can see this version number in the About dialog of VS, as well. -- Lars Viklund | zao@acc.umu.se