* Marshall Clow wrote:
The release candidates for the 1.63.0 release are now available at:
As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.
One thing I mentioned [1] about 1.62 and several older versions, a few days ago, is also present in this RC: In the "toolset=msvc-14.0 link=shared runtime-link=shared" build, several static libraries are built for no discernible reason. As far as I can tell by watching file system operations (using Sysinternals procmon), these libraries are not accessed again after creation. There is nothing documented about this behavior, and I suspect a bug in the build process. The unexpected files are: libboost_chrono-vc140-mt-1_63.lib libboost_system-vc140-mt-1_63.lib libboost_timer-vc140-mt-1_63.lib libboost_unit_test_framework-vc140-mt-1_63.lib These two are probably expected, because there are no DLLs built for them at all: libboost_test_exec_monitor-vc140-mt-1_63.lib libboost_exception-vc140-mt-1_63.lib Sorry for harping on this, but I still don't understand what's happening here, and would really like to. [1] http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2016/12/86959.php -- Christian