Ok so I've used boost before in passing on a Linux system but I've never set it up before on a windows system. Currently I'm looking at it for learning some advanced programming techniques with shared pointers and just to get a general handle of the rest of the libraries. However I can't seem to get boost.jam to install on my Windows Machine and the error is a fairly cryptic one that I'm not sure of the relevance of. Specifically: \Utilities\Bin\x86 was unexpected at this time. I have found a directory area with that structure on my system, specifically in the directx SDK area. The error kills the build script the same way regardless of the compiler it's pointed to so I'm leaning towards it being some sort of environment issue but I'm not sure. Important notes are I'm running the Vista Enterprise edition with VS2k5 and the SP1 patch for vista so this could be lending to the problem. Has anyone had a similar issue? (I'm attempting to dig thru the archives but they sadly lack a search feature.) -Garrett McGrath Software Engineer CSBMB Princeton University Green Hall 1-(609)-258-0285 -Garrett McGrath Software Engineer CSBMB Princeton University Green Hall 1-(609)-258-0285