Hi.
So I had the same error : boost 1_51 , Win7, 64 bits.
It seems to be related to your system. I didn't have any issue when doing this yesterday on Win7 32bit / MSVC 10.
On Windows 7, when I try to do bootstrap on a freshly unzipped boost 1.49 at the root directory, I get the following output:
Building Boost.Build engine
But that is as far as it gets before os terminates whatever it is doing with this (roughly translated from russian):
**** STACK SIZE EXCEEDED **** **** WHILE PERFORMING RECURSION IN BATCH MODE **** Recursion depth=654, Stack usage=90 percent. **** BATCH PROCESSING ABORTED ****
Could you try building the Boost Build/Jam engine directly on that system? Just go to the tools/build/v2/engine folder and run 'build.bat vc10'. That should run the build and create the bjam.exe executable in some bin* subfolder, but it will also display some extra output that gets masked by the wrapper Boost library bootstrap script. Best regards, Jurko Gospodnetić