Compiling boost1.47 on Windows7 64bit with VC2013 x64

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I needed to compile boost1.47 in windows for win_ros so i decided to document what i did.

I tried different versions of boost but winros seems to only play nice with this one. If someone manages to compile winros with later version of boost that would be awesome and i’d like to know about it. But since we’re stuck with this boost version we need change a few things for it to compile under VC2013. Out of the box 1.47 doesn’t know about compilers later than VC2010, so we’ll teach it.

1. In "boost_1_47_0\boost\signals\detail\named_slot_map.hpp" and "boost_1_47_0\libs\signals\src\named_slot_map.cpp" change BOOST_WORKAROUND(_MSC_VER, <= 1600) to BOOST_WORKAROUND(_MSC_VER, <= 1900)
2. Run bootstrap.bat
3. Now we need to modify some build files. All i did was to get the latest version of boost and copy the parts of of these files that deal with specifying settings for the latest compilers. So in "boost_1_47_0\tools\build\v2\engine\build.bat" replace

   if NOT "_%VS100COMNTOOLS%_" == "__" (

   with

       call :Clear_Error
       if NOT "_%VS140COMNTOOLS%_" == "__" (
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET=vc14"
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT=%VS140COMNTOOLS%..\..\VC\"
           goto :eof) 
       call :Clear_Error 
       if EXIST "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\VCVARSALL.BAT" (
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET=vc14"
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT=%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\"
           goto :eof) 
       call :Clear_Error
       if NOT "_%VS120COMNTOOLS%_" == "__" (
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET=vc12"
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT=%VS120COMNTOOLS%..\..\VC\"
           goto :eof) 
       call :Clear_Error
       if EXIST "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\VCVARSALL.BAT" (
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET=vc12"
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT=%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\VC\"
           goto :eof) 
       call :Clear_Error 
       if NOT "_%VS110COMNTOOLS%_" == "__" (
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET=vc11"
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT=%VS110COMNTOOLS%..\..\VC\"
           goto :eof) 
       call :Clear_Error 
       if EXIST "%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\VCVARSALL.BAT" (
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET=vc11"
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT=%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\VC\"
           goto :eof) 
       call :Clear_Error 
       if NOT "_%VS100COMNTOOLS%_" == "__" (
        

   and later in the same file replace

   :Skip_VC10

   with

       :Skip_VC10
       if NOT "_%BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET%_" == "_vc11_" goto Skip_VC11
       if NOT "_%VS110COMNTOOLS%_" == "__" (
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT=%VS110COMNTOOLS%..\..\VC\"
           )
       if "_%VCINSTALLDIR%_" == "__" call :Call_If_Exists "%BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT%VCVARSALL.BAT" %BOOST_JAM_ARGS%
       if NOT "_%BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT%_" == "__" (
           if "_%VCINSTALLDIR%_" == "__" (
               set "PATH=%BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT%bin;%PATH%"
               ) )
       set "BOOST_JAM_CC=cl /nologo /RTC1 /Zi /MTd /Fobootstrap/ /Fdbootstrap/ -DNT -DYYDEBUG -wd4996 kernel32.lib advapi32.lib user32.lib"
       set "BOOST_JAM_OPT_JAM=/Febootstrap\jam0"
       set "BOOST_JAM_OPT_MKJAMBASE=/Febootstrap\mkjambase0"
       set "BOOST_JAM_OPT_YYACC=/Febootstrap\yyacc0"
       set "_known_=1"
       :Skip_VC11
       if NOT "_%BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET%_" == "_vc12_" goto Skip_VC12
       if NOT "_%VS120COMNTOOLS%_" == "__" (
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT=%VS120COMNTOOLS%..\..\VC\"
           )
       if "_%VCINSTALLDIR%_" == "__" call :Call_If_Exists "%BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT%VCVARSALL.BAT" %BOOST_JAM_ARGS%
       if NOT "_%BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT%_" == "__" (
           if "_%VCINSTALLDIR%_" == "__" (
               set "PATH=%BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT%bin;%PATH%"
               ) )
       set "BOOST_JAM_CC=cl /nologo /RTC1 /Zi /MTd /Fobootstrap/ /Fdbootstrap/ -DNT -DYYDEBUG -wd4996 kernel32.lib advapi32.lib user32.lib"
       set "BOOST_JAM_OPT_JAM=/Febootstrap\jam0"
       set "BOOST_JAM_OPT_MKJAMBASE=/Febootstrap\mkjambase0"
       set "BOOST_JAM_OPT_YYACC=/Febootstrap\yyacc0"
       set "_known_=1"
       :Skip_VC12
       if NOT "_%BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET%_" == "_vc14_" goto Skip_VC14
       if NOT "_%VS140COMNTOOLS%_" == "__" (
           set "BOOST_JAM_TOOLSET_ROOT=%VS140COMNTOOLS ...