Hi, I had this problem recently. I had to abandon the stage argument and just use: bjam --toolset=msvc --with-system or alternatively, just build the system part by running bjam in: boost\libs\system\build like this: bjam --toolset=msvc threading=multi link=static Good luck! Simon Damjan Miklic wrote:

Hi,

I am running into some problems when trying to build a simple Asio program (the Timer2 tutorial) with MSVC 8.0. I have installed Boost using the installer from Boost Consulting and copied the Asio headers to the boost_1_34_1\boost directory. The program compiles (with three warnings about deprecated unsafe functions in asio headers) but linking fails with the error:

fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'libboost_system-vc80-mt-sgd-1_34_1.lib'

I have tried building Boost.System with the command:

bjam --with-system stage

according to the instructions found on:

http://asio.sourceforge.net/boost_asio_0_3_8/libs/asio/doc/html/boost_asio/u...

but i get the following error: error: wrong library name 'system' in the --with-<library> option.

I have searched the Boost website and mailing list archives but couldn't find any further information on building the System library.

Any help in resolving this problem will be greatly appreciated.

Best Regards,

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