How do I build boost with new Visual Studio 2013 preview?

Yes. It is possible.

Possible solutions are:

  1. Try build Boost 1.53: not too fresh, but for some strange reason it builds just fine.
  2. If you really-really need Boost 1.54 (new Log library looks good 🙂 ), try to apply this diff-patch to your Boost 1.54 distributive. It is best suited for revision 84920, but you can try any other too. Note that I am not author of this patch.
  3. Try to get latest revision with Subversion:
    svn co http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk boost-trunk. For a time when you reading this, issue can be already fixed by contributors.

EDIT: 26 aug 2013

Looks like boost folks fixed these issues. Latest SVN revision svn co http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk boost-trunk builds fine. Thanks to them!

EDIT: 4 dec 2013

Quote from TheArtTrooper comment:

Boost 1.55.0 builds with the Visual Studio 2013 RTM without any
additional patches

Happy boosting!

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