Okay, so compiling works, but linking doesn't. What is the output if you run with -d2 --debug-configuration I'm guessing that the linker isn't found and ends up empty, so /lib is interpreted as the program to execute instead of an argument to the linker.
The icl.exe tool isn't being found but I have no idea why. Here was the result of running with the debug config: \boost_1_48_0>bjam --toolset="intel" "-sINTEL_PATH=C :\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Composer XE\bin\ia32\" "-sINTEL_BASE_MSVC_TOOLSET=vc -10_0" "-sINTEL_VERSION=12.1" -2 --debug-configuration notice: found boost-build.jam at C:/Users/Kim Gadecki/Desktop/boost_1_48_0/boost -build.jam notice: loading Boost.Build from C:/Users/Kim Gadecki/Desktop/boost_1_48_0/tools /build/v2 notice: [msvc-cfg] msvc-10.0 detected, command: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsof t Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\cl.exe' notice: [msvc-cfg] msvc-9.0 detected, command: 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\bin\cl.exe' notice: will use 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\cl. exe' for msvc, condition <toolset>msvc-10.0 notice: [msvc-cfg] condition: '<toolset>msvc-10.0/<architecture>/<address-model> ', setup: 'call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsal l.bat" x86 >nul ' notice: [msvc-cfg] condition: '<toolset>msvc-10.0/<architecture>/<address-model> 32', setup: 'call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvars all.bat" x86 >nul ' notice: [msvc-cfg] condition: '<toolset>msvc-10.0/<architecture>x86/<address-mod el>', setup: 'call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvar sall.bat" x86 >nul ' notice: [msvc-cfg] condition: '<toolset>msvc-10.0/<architecture>x86/<address-mod el>32', setup: 'call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcv arsall.bat" x86 >nul ' notice: [msvc-cfg] condition: '<toolset>msvc-10.0/<architecture>/<address-model> 64', setup: 'call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvars all.bat" x86_amd64 >nul ' notice: [msvc-cfg] condition: '<toolset>msvc-10.0/<architecture>x86/<address-mod el>64', setup: 'call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcv arsall.bat" x86_amd64 >nul ' notice: [msvc-cfg] condition: '<toolset>msvc-10.0/<architecture>ia64/<address-mo del>', setup: 'call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcva rsall.bat" x86_ia64 >nul ' notice: [msvc-cfg] condition: '<toolset>msvc-10.0/<architecture>ia64/<address-mo del>64', setup: 'call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vc varsall.bat" x86_ia64 >nul ' warning: toolset intel-win initialization: can not find tool icl.exe warning: initialized from notice: will use 'icl.exe' for intel-win, condition <toolset>intel-win notice: iostreams: not using zlib compression notice: iostreams: not using zlib compression notice: iostreams: not using bzip2 compression notice: iostreams: not using bzip2 compression Building the Boost C++ Libraries. At which point it started bringing up the can't open file windows. Thanks for your reply.