Hi there.
Yes I am a developer but not software, embedded hardware which means I do a lot of programming for non-PC processors and microcontrollers and a lot of PCB designing. This why I like KiCad.
So I did look into BOOST libraries and the version I have is 1.60… maybe. It seems hard to determine since I never actually installed them specifically. I have almost given up on the latest version of KiCad on my Win7 64b PC but I thought I would try to use winbuilder to build KiCad myself. I got it from GitHub. I did it last time in 2015 and it worked fine. This time it seems to have problems with cmake recognizing the version of Python. (I found that the version of BOOST in the winbuilder files is 1.6, which confuses me since that link indicates 1.57 or lower only works.)
problems… problems…
Anyways, I Just tried Kicad on my Win7 32 bit PC and there is no problem with it. This means that this stable version does not work on Win7 64 bit PCs. That’s OK for now. I’ll just use the Win10 tablet for a while until the developers fix this.
Thanks for all the help everybody. I think I should just leave this for those developing KiCad. My skillset doesn’t really include PC software development. Unless someone knows a sure way to replace the boost libraries on a win7 64b PC. haha…