If I understood correctly, these instructions were for building boost python itself, using Visual Studio instead of bjam. I suspect that's not what you really want. If it was, you would need to get all the CPPDEFINES right, and remove any extra code that was added by Visual studio (like dllmain.cpp, stdafx.cpp etc.). It's better to let bjam build boost... If you are just building a new python extension it's less complicated: - I am assuming that you have built boost (and boost python) with bjam already - Create a Visual Studio project that builds a shared library (dll) - Make sure it contains no code created by Visual Studio, then just add the source code for your python extension (and don't add the boost python library source code to the project) - Obviously set up include paths to include the Python and boost include directories, and similar for the library search path - You will need to link to python25.lib in the python distribution, and link to the correct boost python .lib from boost - You probably want to change the output name from .dll to .pyd (since the python interpreter expects that from version 2.5, and is not able to import a module named .dll) happybrowndog <happybrowndog <at> hotmail.com> writes:
Are you sure this works? I followed every step for making a DLL as you had described, but I get a lot of warnings and errors. I am using Boost 1.35.0 with Visual C++ 9.0. Here is the first batch of warnings leading to the first error: