I am trying to compile boost 1.45 using the recently released Intel Composer XE 2011 for Windows. I am running into the same error as described in ticker 4092 (https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4092). I have changed the check for BOOST_MSVC to include BOOST_INTEL_WIN (line 19 of boost/property_tree/detail/ptree_implementation.hpp) and can compile successfully. Not sure if this is the proper fix, so I hope the author/maintainer can look into this and fix this. Obviously, since it's the library that's broken and not the actual compiler, any other compiler using the same library will run into the same problem.
Does anyone know of a way to detect the MS CPPSL independently from their compiler?
Yes: see the logic in boost/config/select_stdlib_config.hpp - note that any replacement std lib's like STLport need to be excluded as well. Also Boost.Config helpfully defines BOOST_DINKUMWARE_STDLIB when it detects Dinkumwares stdlib - set to the version number of _CPPLIB_VER - so using this would probably be the best bet. HTH, John.