Would it be possible to round up this information and put it in the wiki or under https://github.com/apache/arrow/tree/master/docs/source/cpp somewhere for the next person who needs to debug the static CRT build on Windows? I haven't had to do this personally yet and I can imagine similarly losing a bunch of time to it =)
On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 10:49 PM Micah Kornfield <emkornfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just to finish off this thread. Antoine's advice was spot on (need to pass > Debug and Static to b2). There was still another build issue with doube > precision but I was able to bypass it my making the specific test that was > failing. > > > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 3:49 AM Antoine Pitrou <anto...@python.org> wrote: > > > > > Le 26/02/2019 à 05:42, Micah Kornfield a écrit : > > > The issue I'm blocked on is getting boost installed properly. I've > > > included all of the steps I've run below, if anyone has some thoughts or > > > the magical script to build and install the appropriate boost libraries > > > appropriate for the Static_Crt_Build i would greatly appreciate it. > > > > > > With a Windows 10 MSVC 2017 VM: > > > Download and install cmake and Anaconda3 via visual installers. > > > Download Boost 1.67 and extract it. > > > Run "Developer Command Prompt for MSVC 2017" from the start menu. > > > 1. CD to the boost directory > > > 2. Run: .\bootstrap.bat > > > 3. Run: .\b2.exe > > > 4. run: .\b2.exe install > > > > Does this also build the libraries in debug mode? > > According to > > https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_69_0/more/getting_started/windows.html, > > you can "choose a specific build variant by adding release or debug to > > the command line". > > > > Regards > > > > Antoine. > >
