The following libraries generate errors when using msvc, building for release and generating the program debug database: date_time, locale, math (all), thread, wave. Except for math, this seems to be caused by having at least one directory specified in the /Fd option. Also, there are 251 .pdb files in the boost root directory instead of their respective output directory (presumably from serialization, unit_test, math, and most probably others). The command-line is: bjam link=shared runtime-link=shared variant=release --layout=system --stagedir=.\stage stage debug-symbols=on debug-store=database I am at a loss on how to fix this. Can someone help? On a related note, the .pdb files are automatically generated when building for debug. Is there an easy switch somewhere in the sources, so that I can turn this on globally also for release as a work-around? For reference, below is the output for the first file for each library, plus contents of the corresponding .rsp file Thanks, Christoph. ======================================== compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\date_time\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\gregorian\greg_month.obj greg_month.cpp libs\date_time\src\gregorian\greg_month.cpp : fatal error C1033: cannot open program database 'd:\dev\boost_1_52_0\gregorian\greg_month.pdb' call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 >nul cl /Zm800 -nologo @"bin.v2\libs\date_time\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\gregorian\greg_month.obj.rsp" ---------------------------------------- "libs\date_time\src\gregorian\greg_month.cpp" -Fo"bin.v2\libs\date_time\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\gregorian\greg_month.obj" /Fd"gregorian\greg_month.pdb" -TP /O2 /Zi /Ob2 /W3 /GR /MD /Zc:forScope /Zc:wchar_t /wd4675 /EHs -c -DBOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK=1 -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DDATE_TIME_INLINE -DNDEBUG "-I." ======================================== compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\locale\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\encoding\codepage.obj codepage.cpp libs\locale\src\encoding\codepage.cpp : fatal error C1033: cannot open program database 'd:\dev\boost_1_52_0\encoding\codepage.pdb' call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 >nul cl /Zm800 -nologo @"bin.v2\libs\locale\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\encoding\codepage.obj.rsp" ---------------------------------------- "libs\locale\src\encoding\codepage.cpp" -Fo"bin.v2\libs\locale\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\encoding\codepage.obj" /Fd"encoding\codepage.pdb" -TP /O2 /Zi /Ob2 /W3 /GR /MD /Zc:forScope /Zc:wchar_t /wd4675 /EHs -c -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_LOCALE_DYN_LINK=1 -DBOOST_LOCALE_NO_POSIX_BACKEND=1 -DBOOST_SYSTEM_DYN_LINK=1 -DBOOST_THREAD_NO_LIB=1 -DNDEBUG "-I." ======================================== compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\math\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\assoc_laguerre.obj assoc_laguerre.cpp libs\math\build\..\src\tr1\assoc_laguerre.cpp(6) : error C2858: command-line option 'program database name (/Fdd:\dev\boost_1_52_0\assoc_laguerre.pdb)' inconsistent with precompiled header, which used '/Fdd:\dev\boost_1_52_0\vc110.pdb' libs\math\build\..\src\tr1\assoc_laguerre.cpp(6) : error C2859: d:\dev\boost_1_52_0\assoc_laguerre.pdb is not the pdb file that was used when this precompiled header was created, recreate the precompiled header. call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 >nul cl /Zm800 -nologo @"bin.v2\libs\math\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\assoc_laguerre.obj.rsp" ---------------------------------------- "libs\math\build\..\src\tr1\assoc_laguerre.cpp" -Fo"bin.v2\libs\math\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\assoc_laguerre.obj" /Fd"assoc_laguerre.pdb" -Yu"pch.hpp" -Fp"bin.v2\libs\math\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\pch.pch" -TP /O2 /Zi /Ob2 /W3 /GR /MD /Zc:forScope /Zc:wchar_t /wd4675 /EHs -c -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_BUILD_PCH_ENABLED -DBOOST_MATH_TR1_DYN_LINK=1 -DNDEBUG "-I." "-Ilibs\math\src\tr1" ======================================== compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\thread\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\win32\thread.obj thread.cpp libs\thread\src\win32\thread.cpp : fatal error C1033: cannot open program database 'd:\dev\boost_1_52_0\win32\thread.pdb' call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 >nul cl /Zm800 -nologo @"bin.v2\libs\thread\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\win32\thread.obj.rsp" ---------------------------------------- "libs\thread\src\win32\thread.cpp" -Fo"bin.v2\libs\thread\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\win32\thread.obj" /Fd"win32\thread.pdb" -TP /O2 /Zi /Ob2 /W4 /GR /MD /Zc:forScope /Zc:wchar_t /wd4675 /EHs -c -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_SYSTEM_DYN_LINK=1 -DBOOST_SYSTEM_NO_DEPRECATED -DBOOST_THREAD_BUILD_DLL=1 -DBOOST_THREAD_DONT_USE_CHRONO -DBOOST_THREAD_THROW_IF_PRECONDITION_NOT_SATISFIED -DNDEBUG "-I." ======================================== compile-c-c++ bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\cpplexer\re2clex\aq.obj aq.cpp libs\wave\src\cpplexer\re2clex\aq.cpp : fatal error C1033: cannot open program database 'd:\dev\boost_1_52_0\cpplexer\re2clex\aq.pdb' call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86 >nul cl /Zm800 -nologo @"bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\cpplexer\re2clex\aq.obj.rsp" ---------------------------------------- "libs\wave\src\cpplexer\re2clex\aq.cpp" -Fo"bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-11.0\release\debug-store-database\debug-symbols-on\threading-multi\cpplexer\re2clex\aq.obj" /Fd"cpplexer\re2clex\aq.pdb" -TP /O2 /Zi /Ob2 /W3 /GR /MD /Zc:forScope /Zc:wchar_t /wd4675 /EHs -c -DBOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK=1 -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DNDEBUG -D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE -D_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE "-I." ========================================