OK, I;m not getting very far with this, am I? Presumably there must be a bzillion people who have properly built 1_33_1 with VC 7.1; but it doesn't seem like they can have followed the directions on the getting started page -- either that, or they are better at interpreting some of the vaguenesses on that page than I am. So one more, here is what I have done: 0. Placed bjam.exe in my PATH. 1. Downloaded and unzipped 1_33_1. 2. Run c:\program files\microsoft visual studio .net 2003\vc7\bin\vcvars32.bat 3. cd to the main 1_33_1 directory (the one that contains configure, jamfile and about a dozen other files). 4. Execute bjam "-sTOOLS=vc-7_1". 5. Result: Jamfile:197: in load-jamfiles *** argument error * rule install-subinclude ( jamfiles + : options * ) * called with: ( : ) * missing argument jamfiles C:\boost\boost_1_33_1\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:2855:see definition of rule 'install-subinclude' being called C:\boost\boost_1_33_1\tools\build\v1\bootstrap.jam:21: in boost-build C:\boost\boost_1_33_1\boost-build.jam:16: in module scope 6. It seems to be complaining about a missing argument that should be a filename of some kind. But what argument am I missing? Doc