As we expand the set of platforms and compilers one of our clients targets, we came across a small problem: the default bjam msvc settings file (for m$ vc8) did not work on x64 …

No exe’s.

What to do?

Luckily, there’s a howto on the web – a settings jam file with just the right settings to get it all to work, you can find it here

We used it as a drop in and the exe’s came rolling out …

1. create a file as ‘msvc-x64.jam’ (or any name you like)
2. copy the contents of the website into it
3. move it to you jam dir (boost\tools\build\v2\tools)

Then you can do:

 bjam --toolset=msvc-x64 

That’s all …