"Delfin Rojas" <drojas@moodlogic.com> writes:
I have never tried to build bjam and run it so I am not sure what may be happening in your case. You can download pre-built bjam for Win32 from SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586 <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=72941
&package_id=72941).
What Theo did should be fine. It works more generally than using the download, too -- if he were building against a CVS snapshot, the downloaded EXE might fail.
On the other hand, putting bjam.exe on C:\Windows\system32 does not seem like a good idea to me. Put bjam.exe where boost is (C:\temp\boost_1_32_0 for you).
It may not be good style, but it will work there just as well as it will work in C:\temp\boost_1_32_0.
Before running bjam you need to run vsvars32.bat which comes with Visual C++ 7 installation.
Not if his Visual Studio was installed in the standard place on an English language system. It will be found automatically. And, regardless, that will have nothing to do with the reasons for the failure he was seeing. The Visual Studio environment variables have not yet come into play by the time he sees the error he listed. Just trying to avoid further confusion. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com