Building boost is well and truly broken :-(

[johne53]

Sorry to be a pain (yet again!) but I've just wasted two days trying unsuccessfully to build the Boost port, currently in Classic mode. In another thread I already reported some issues building its openssl dependency (which already took several hours to fix). But now it's bombed out when building something called python3[core,extensions]

Python3's build-x64-windows-rel-out.log shows me 92 compilation errors. Many of them are in a file called Modules\_ssl.c and the rest are mostly shared between Modules\pyexpat.c and Modules\pyexpat.h

I've never edited any of vcpkg's source files so it can't be anything that I've done.

[johne53]

In case it helps this is still present in the latest vcpkg repo (newly downloaded last night and which I tested this morning) so the errors definitely can't be getting caused by any change on my part.

Even more damning, it looks like this has been getting reported frequently since at least 9 months ago and it's simply getting ignored:-

https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+in%3Atitle+python3