Victor A. Wagner, Jr. wrote:
It may be operator error here also... see my other message but NO documentation anywhere suggests that enforcing standard C++ using MSVC will affect one's ability to use any of the boost libraries.
I've found that using the /Za option breaks a lot of things for using boost. I believe we've gone a bit overboard in our requirements for MSVC for example, all of my date_time stuff works JUST fine....even using /Za if I simply add a line to auto_link.hpp which will accept _MSC_VER
= 1310
I note that another test from a colleague (boost threads) won't compile if /Za is turned on. the visualc.hpp file in config turns off the Win32API if extensions aren't enabled. Say what?? what do the language extensions have to do with libraries being called?
I haven't tested it so I can't be sure but I believe that if /Za is turned on, you can't include any windows.h without many errors occurring. I believe the windows.h header file has always failed when one is in C++ standard mode ( /Za ). There has been talk by MS of changing it to be C++ standard compliant but I don't think that has been done in VC7.1.