Cannot build Boost with Visual Studio 2017 - boost

I downloaded Boost 1.63.0 and tried building it with my newly installed Visual Studio 2017 but there is no way it works! It compiles with the Visual Studio 2015 compiler instead.
Let me be more clear. I have both Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 and Visual Studio 2017 installed in my laptop. I open a command prompt with the environment set for the 2017 compiler (which is version 15.0).
Then I execute:
b2 --layout=versioned --with-chrono
but it uses version 14.0 (toolset=msvc-14.0) instead of version 15.0...
Thanks!
Juan Dent

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Generator
Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64
could not find any instance of Visual Studio.
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...
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How could I use the Visual Studio 15 2017 generator instead of the newest Visual Studio 17 2022?
How could I use the Visual Studio 15 2017 generator instead of the newest Visual Studio 17 2022?
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I selected "Desktop development with C++" and "MSVC v141 - VS 2017 C++ x64/x86 build tools" (as answers to similar questions had suggested)
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