Boost :: Python Windows 7 64 bit

Question

I cannot create boost boost :: python correctly on my windows 7 64bit machine. This is vanilla 32bit python 2.6.4 in the c: \ Python26 directory.

Pastebin is here for debug build output: http://pastebin.com/m7d70f13e

Greetings

Al

Answer 1

In IRC, we found that the following procedure fixes the problem:

• Open tools / build / v 2 / tools / python.jam

• Find the following code here:

  if [ version.check-jam-version 3 1 17 ] || ( [ os.name ] != NT )
  {
      # Prior to version 3.1.17 Boost Jam SHELL command did not support
      # quoted commands correctly on Windows. This means that on that
      # platform we do not support using a Python command interpreter
      # executable whose path contains a space character.
      python-cmd = \"$(python-cmd)\" ;
  }
  

• Remove this code completely.

I will create a problem in Tracker Boost and investigate this.