"John Zulauf Yahoo"
I am attempting to build and install boost_1_33_1 using the MSVS 8 instructions at
Those are not really instructions for building Boost. Did you look at http://www.boost.org/more/getting_started.html?
and the prebuilt bjam boost-jam-3.1.13-1-ntx86.zip <http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/boost/boost-jam-3.1.13-1-ntx86.zip?downl oad>
You might try downloading or building the bjam executable that corresponds to the 1.33.1 release. To build: open the Visual C++ Command Prompt (in your programs menu), go to the boost\jam\src subdirectory of your Boost distribution, and type build You should end up with a bjam executable in the .\bin.ntx86\ subdirectory.
and bjam fails (apparently) with a "send error report" dialog every time it is run.
What exactly does it say in this dialog?
I also tried the instructions at http://lists.boost.org/boost-users/2006/09/21938.php with the same results.
What am I doing wrong? Do I have the wrong version of bjam.exe?
Maybe.
Why the two different sets of instructions?
Rene was giving a user help tailored to his specific build environment. I'm sure if you look through all the mailing list archives on the web you'll find many such sets of instructions. -- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com