How to build Boost 1.44 using VS 2015

Question

I am working on legacy projects upgrade from VS2010 to VS2015. for that boost1.44 should be recompiled using VS2015 and i tried to rebuild it. I got following errors:

1) libs\\regex\\build\\has_icu_test.cpp(12) : fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'unicode/uversion.h': No such file or directory

2) error C2280: 'boost::shared_ptr<boost::signals::detail::basic_connection>::shared_ptr(const boost::shared_ptr<boost::signals::detail::basic_connection> &)': attempting to reference a deleted function

3) error C2874: using-declaration causes a multiple declaration of 'boost::fusion::tuple'

4) warning : Unknown compiler version - please run the configure tests and report the results

How to resolve these issues without upgrading boost? or is it mandatory to upgrade boost to higher version to compile using VS2015?

Answer 1

boost 1.44 was released long before VS 2015 so this compiler is not supported. Besides many bugs were fixed in boost since that time. You should update boost to the latest version.

Also the error #1 seems to be caused by missing ICU library .