[boost] build failure

[donr484]

Operating system

Windows 11 Pro, Ver 25H2, Build 26200.7628, Feature Exp Pack 1000.26100.275.0

Compiler

MSVC

Steps to reproduce the behavior

add "boost" to vcpkg.json "dependencies"
vcpkg x-update-baseline
vcpkg install

Failure logs

crashes and reboots the os into oblivion.
i have to cold reset to get back into windows.

Additional context

I first tried the built in Visual Studio 2026 vcpkg, which locked up my pc and forced me to cold reboot.

I then spent days trying to figure out how to use a git pull of the latest vcpkg from the VS dev command prompt.

I have to manually overwrite environment variables after opening the prompt and verify with vcpkg version that I'm using the correct one.

Once I was confident that I was using the latest vcpkg in the prompt, I did the baseline update and install again from my solution dir and now it crashes my pc and reboots.

Before adding "boost" to dependencies, I only had "directx-headers" which always worked fine when i did a baseline update and install.

Note I also tried downloading boost 1.90.0 and building it. That also fails.

I'm new to c++ and I don't know if this is the correct place to ask for help. This could be a boost issue, but I think it is pretty unacceptable that a package manager crashes the pc.

I'm not sure why there isn't a gui for vcpkg like nuget. Being forced to use a stubborn command prompt environment is a terrible experience for someone new to c++.

Recovering from a failure and crash like this is also painful. What seems to let me run vcpkg install again is wiping the vcpkg_installed dir in my solution. I'm not sure what else to do.

[donr484]

A follow up...

I removed boost as a dependency in vcpkg.json, then added about 20 or so individual boost components that I wanted to try.

vcpkg install was able to finish without crashing my pc, but it failed for boost-url. I made sure I wasn't using #include for boost-url.

I then tried to do a rebuild of my solution and it froze my pc. I had to cold reboot to get responsiveness again.

The last build messages i saw were waiting for lock on .vcpkg-root during the release build. (Similar messages happened before that on the debug build, but didn't lock up my pc.)

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Next I tried removing all but the 2 boost components I was actually using in code from dependencies and #includes (lexical_cast and thread).

Vcpkg install worked without errors or crashing.

Building the solution finally worked without crashing.

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There are major issues no matter how you try to put boost in your solution.

I feel that I should be able to add boost as a dependency and vcpkg install should work without crashing my pc.

I feel that I should be able to #include some of the boost components after that and building the solution shouldn't crash my pc, especially if I'm not even using some of them in any code.

I reported all of this to boost as well. Let me know if there is anything more I can do. Thanks.